Explore the Biblical Video Teachings Library from House of Faith Ministries—Spirit-filled teachings, prophetic insight, and verse-by-verse studies to strengthen faith and deepen understanding of God’s Word. Biblical Video Teachings Library 2 Welcome to the Biblical Video Teachings Library list #2 of House of Faith Ministries. Here you will find additional Spirit-filled teachings, prophetic insights, and verse-by-verse studies from Pastor Marcos Marrero and Minister Lisa Kane. Every video is curated to equip believers, strengthen faith, and proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ. Explore the teachings below and grow deeper in the Word of God. 8 Page 1 THE NINETY-NINE Minister Lisa Kane March 4, 2026 Explore this Teaching in depth SEEK AND YOU WILL FIND Minister Lisa Kane February 19, 2026 Explore this Teaching in depth WHY DID YOU DOUBT? Minister Lisa Kane February 10, 2026 Explore this Teaching in depth OVERCOMING YOUR THOUGHTS Minister Lisa Kane February 2, 2026 Explore this Teaching in depth The Purpose of the Book of Revelation Minister Lisa Kane January 20, 2026 Explore this Teaching in depth LOST and FOUND Minister Lisa Kane January 9, 2026 Explore this Teaching in depth PROACTIVE PRAYING Minister Lisa Kane January 2, 2026 Explore this Teaching in depth SENDING MIXED MESSAGES TO GOD Minister Lisa Kane December 14, 2025 Explore this Teaching in depth PRAYING THROUGH OBEDIENCE Minister Lisa Kane October 28, 2025 Explore this Teaching in depth THE COMMANDMENT OF MEN Minister Lisa Kane October 26, 2025 Explore this Teaching in depth 8 Page 1 Home All Video Teachings Library 2 THE NINETY-NINE View Teaching → SEEK AND YOU WILL FIND View Teaching → WHY DID YOU DOUBT? View Teaching → OVERCOMING YOUR THOUGHTS View Teaching → The Purpose of the Book of Revelation View Teaching → LOST and FOUND View Teaching → PROACTIVE PRAYING View Teaching → SENDING MIXED MESSAGES TO GOD View Teaching → PRAYING THROUGH OBEDIENCE View Teaching → THE COMMANDMENT OF MEN View Teaching → ARE YOU WATCHING END TIMES UPDATE MATTHEW 24 View Teaching → HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS View Teaching → SEVENTEEN View Teaching → THE DAY OF SALVATION View Teaching → VALUABLE AND INVALUABLE WORKS View Teaching → GODS COURTROOM View Teaching → COMPASSION View Teaching → WHAT ARE SOME CHARACTER TRAITS OF UNBELIEF View Teaching → ENTER HIS REST View Teaching → THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SALVATION AND LIVING FOR CHRIST View Teaching → GODS GIFT TO THE WORLD DO YOU BELIEVE View Teaching → HANNAHS PRAYER View Teaching → YOU ARE GODS CHOICE OF WEAPON View Teaching → OBEDIENCE IN YOUR CALLING View Teaching → WALKING IN KNOWLEDGE View Teaching → CLEANSING INIQUITY View Teaching → REPAIRING THE DISOWNED STATEMENT View Teaching → THE NAME OF JESUS View Teaching → HEALING YOUR SOUL AND BODY View Teaching → MANIFESTING THE GREAT AND PRECIOUS PROMISES View Teaching → GOD'S COVENANT AND RESTORATION View Teaching → DO YOU WANT TO BE FREE View Teaching → WHICH SIDE OF BELIEF ARE YOU ON View Teaching → WHO PAID THE WAGES View Teaching → CAN YOU LOSE SALVATION View Teaching → GOD THE FATHER View Teaching → THE HOPE OF GLORY View Teaching → THE PARDON View Teaching → LOVE IN DOCTRINE View Teaching → SPIRITUAL WARFARE View Teaching → A CHRISTIANS TRANSFORMATION View Teaching → WHEN JESUS SPEAKS View Teaching → SPEAK View Teaching → JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD AND HE LOVES YOU View Teaching → THE MESSIAH AND THE KING View Teaching → THE PEACE THAT SURPASSES ALL UNDERSTANDING View Teaching → DISCERNING FALSE TEACHERS View Teaching → IS YOUR NAME WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF THE LIVING View Teaching → WHO AM I AND WHY AM I HERE View Teaching → ATONEMENT View Teaching → RELEASING THE BLESSINGS View Teaching → PERSEVERANCE View Teaching → THE GIFT OF LIFE View Teaching → BUILDING YOUR ARK View Teaching → WATCH AND PRAY WITH DILIGENCE View Teaching → EVIDENCE SUPPORTING CREATION View Teaching → CONCERNING SPIRITUAL GIFTS View Teaching → THE LIVING WORD PART 2 View Teaching → THE LIVING WORD PART 1 View Teaching → INTO THE LIGHT View Teaching → DOMINION THROUGH ENLIGHTENMENT View Teaching → DISCERNING SPIRITS View Teaching → I AM SOLDIER View Teaching → DOMINION View Teaching → EARS TO HEAR View Teaching → BUT THROUGH KNOWLEDGE View Teaching → INTERCESSION SPIRITUAL WARFARE View Teaching → MINGLED WITH THE UNCLEAN View Teaching → HEALING FOR THE BROKENHEARTED part 2 View Teaching → HEALING FOR THE BROKENHEARTED part 1 View Teaching → MY REDEEMER IS ALIVE View Teaching →

WHICH SIDE OF BELIEF ARE YOU ON The purpose of this message is to challenge listeners to examine where their faith truly stands—whether rooted in the physical and limited by doubt, or anchored in the spiritual with trust in God’s power. The teaching aims to strengthen believers’ understanding of how unbelief hinders God’s miracles, while faith opens the door to His supernatural works. It encourages self-reflection, prayer, and reliance on the Word of God to grow from doubt into strong, active belief. WHICH SIDE OF BELIEF ARE YOU ON Minister Lisa Kane September 9, 2023 Objective: The purpose of this message is to challenge listeners to examine where their faith truly stands—whether rooted in the physical and limited by doubt, or anchored in the spiritual with trust in God’s power. The teaching aims to strengthen believers’ understanding of how unbelief hinders God’s miracles, while faith opens the door to His supernatural works. It encourages self-reflection, prayer, and reliance on the Word of God to grow from doubt into strong, active belief. Synopsis: Lisa Kane begins the message in Mark 5, where Jesus raises Jairus’ daughter from the dead despite ridicule and unbelief from the surrounding crowd. She contrasts those who mocked Jesus with those who trusted Him, showing how belief determines outcomes. Drawing parallels to Israel’s unbelief in the wilderness (Psalm 106), she illustrates how misplaced desire and complaining led to forfeited blessings and lost opportunities. The teaching emphasizes that unbelief has consequences, while faith allows access to God’s promises. Lisa explains how Jesus intentionally surrounded Himself with disciples who believed when performing miracles, highlighting that our level of faith affects the breakthroughs we experience. The message also explores Mark 9, where a desperate father admits both belief and unbelief, showing that honest dependence on Jesus can invite His help to strengthen our faith. Throughout, Lisa reminds believers that miracles are not only biblical history but present realities, urging them to build faith through Scripture, prayer in the Holy Spirit, and testimonies of God’s works. She stresses that confession of Jesus’ Lordship brings salvation, deliverance, healing, and victory over sickness and bondage. The message concludes with a call to unlearn worldly limitations, embrace trust in Christ, and boldly step into the authority God has given His children—choosing the side of active belief rather than unbelief. Inspired Teaching: Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kane. I'm recording this on Saturday, September 9th, 2023. Welcome. This message is called Which Side of Belief Are You On? Let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word. Lord, let your word not return void, but let it bring in the harvest. Let people hear and see, receive and believe and live your word in the glorious, absolutely wonderful name of Jesus. Amen. Amen. Amen. Let's go to our opening scripture here. We're going to start off in Mark 5:40. And they ridiculed him. But when he had put them all outside, he took the father and the mother of the child and those who were with him and entered where the child was lying. Okay. So what I want to do is I want to show you a point of view of do you see things with your eyes in the physical? Do you see things with your eyes in the spiritual? And as you can see here, this group of people, we're going to be delving into this event that happened where Jesus raises this little girl from the dead. Uh they ridiculed him. They didn't believe him. But you got to ask yourself why. You know, you know, they should have believed too because if you go back, I mean, even at their time when Elisha was buried and they another man had died and they put his bones on top of Elisha's bones, that man came alive. And the only reason I I laugh is because there's a story and I'm going to digress and share this little quick story with you and then we'll delve right into the scripture here. But a man and his wife and his mother-in-law went to Israel for a holiday. And uh the mother-in-law passes away while in Israel. And uh the coroner says, "Well, we can ship her back to the States for $5,000 or we can bury her here for $200." And he says, "Okay, we'll ship her back." And he's like, "Well, wait a minute. You're in the Holy Land. This is the Holy Land, you know." And he's like, "Yeah, yeah, I know." He says, "We'll ship her back." And he's like, "Mask? Why?" He says, "Oh, man. You bury her here, she might come back from the dead like Jesus and the bones of Elisha or the the person that was put on the bones of Elisha. Anyways, he didn't want to risk it. I just thought that was funny because it's just so applicable to what we were talking about today. So, he believed obviously and and you know there you know it's a matter of what you believe in and where your eyes are, you know. So, what I'm going to do with this teaching is try to get you to look beyond the physical and see what Jesus can do before you decide to ridicule him like this group of people, you know. And and another thing I really want you to see here is I want you to understand what the consequences of the lack of your belief is. Look at here. The Israelites in Psalm 106:24-25. Then they despised the pleasant land. They did not believe his word, but complained in their tents and did not heed the voice of the Lord. If you go look at the Israelites testimony, they were in the wilderness for 40 years. Everyone 21 years or 18 years, I think it's 21 years and younger enter the promised land. Anyone older did not. And it was because of this. They had mana, food, angel food from heaven given to them. And they were wanting their onions back from the Egyptians when they were in bondage. And because their want and their desire was on the past and they were looking back at their bondage but only seeing what they thought was good. They weren't looking at the good in the moment. Look at the consequence. They despised. Did you see this? They despised the pleasant land that they were going to be going. So they never did get to it. They never entered it. Why give it to them if you're going to complain about it? So they got their wish. So here again, I'm trying to show you where your eyes are so we can get the heart right with God. Amen. So let's go look at Mark 5. Let's look at the whole thing in context. And you know, let me do a refreshing reminder here before we delve even deeper into this. Judge my teaching. Yes, you heard me correctly. Let me repeat that. judge my teaching. You have a responsibility to test what you hear as a believer in Christ or even as an unbeliever. You have to sit there and know what you're hearing. Does it sound right? Is it within context? Is there truth to it? Does it make you feel something on the inside? And if you're struggling with any of that or or this just does not appeal to you, whatever, you need to take it to God. You need to say there's something wrong with her teaching or you need to say what's wrong with me, Lord, and I can't understand her. Maybe you should do both. And then the third is uh you know what, sometimes the teaching is really good, Lord. Hey, that was a great teaching. And then pray for the ministers. You need to be praying for us. all of us ministers, teachers, leaders that that uh share the word of God. You need to be sharing. You need to be praying for each and every one of us. So, get in there and pray. Seriously, get in there and pray. That doesn't mean you come and harass me after you've determined I made a mistake. No, what you do is you go to God. I promise you, he will show me. And if you take a look at all of my past uh teachings and and I've misqued Joel 2:32. I was quoting it as Joel 21:13 I think for a long time there or at least a few messages and the Lord showed me and I got it corrected but I'm not going to go back and correct a past teaching the context is still really good I'm not or the content is still really good so please understand teachers ministers leaders we grow and as we grow we learn more from the word of God so pray for us I haven't done one of those reminders in quite a while okay let's go look at this Jesus raises this little girl from the dead. Okay, so Mark 5:36, as soon as Jesus heard the word that was spoken, okay, so pause here for a minute. Give you a little background. The ruler of the synagogue knew his daughter was sick. So he goes running to Jesus. He heard about Jesus. He heard he was healing the sick. He decides to run after him, try to get his attention. He He's Jesus is surrounded by a huge crowd. I mean, they're thronging him big time and he's trying to get through. In the meanwhile, people from his household came and said, "Hey, don't bother the master. Don't even talk to him anymore. Your daughter is dead." Jesus heard that, and this is where he is. As soon as Jesus heard the word that was spoken, he said to the ruler of the synagogue, "Do not be afraid. Only believe." Pause. Only believe. So, how do you believe in something? Now here this ruler of the synagogue had heard about Jesus and knew something was up. Now uh just to kind of give you a quick view of what she is uh raised from the dead. So obviously he believed Jesus can't perform miracles when the lack of belief is there. You can go look that up in all the gospels in his hometown. Uh even in this place where he is right now in this whole Mark chapter five area. He is he he cast out that demon, the legions and he um the people got so scared when he went across to the other side and when he got over there they heard about what happened here and they told him you need to leave. So they got scared and their lack of um their lack of belief their unbelief is what prevented them from having miracles. But as soon as he got back to the other side, here he is now raising this little girl from the dead. He's going to heal the woman with the issue of blood uh that she had for 12 years. This girl that he raises from the dead is 12 years old. The the significant of the number 12 plays a huge role in here. I'm not delving into the teaching of the numbers here. My dad has taught on that and there's teachings uh in House of Faith Ministries or you can find it from other uh ministers out there. But here he's telling this ruler of the synagogue, don't be afraid, only believe. So here, this ruler of the synagogue hears him and sum things up. So let's continue on with this event. And he prevented no one to follow him except Peter, James, and John, the brother of James. Now, why would he only take so many of his disciples? Every person has a level of belief. You know, if you go look at uh Thomas after Jesus was raised from the dead, he didn't want to believe till he could put his fingers into the holes and the side of Jesus. He doubted. So notice, you know, you don't see Jesus grabbing him. He's getting the ones he knows believes. So now he's gathering a group of people who are believers in raising someone from the dead because he needs that to raise this. By the way, Jesus can raise anyone from the dead any which way. But he's trying to teach his disciples and any minister of the word of God where we could perform these miracles and get them up from the grave. He's trying to show us how to do it because we're not God. We're not Jesus. We don't say let there be light and there's light. We can't do that. We have limitations. Jesus doesn't. But he's showing us in the limitations how to get beyond the limitations. And here you can clearly see he's bringing believers around. In verse 38, then he came to the house of the ruler of the synagogue who and saw a tumult and those who wept and wailed loudly. Now, this still goes on today, but in the Middle East, when someone passes away, it becomes a huge to-do. In fact, they have professional whalers. You can hire someone to come in and whail at your house when you pass away. This is something that they do out there. Well, Jesus walks into this with his group of people that he brought with him. And when he came in, he said to them, "Why make this commotion and weep? The child is not dead, but sleeping." And look at this. and they ridiculed him. They didn't believe. So now Jesus is coming into this state of unbelief. How many ministers are you're teaching the word of God and you've you're trying to teach something spiritual that you your level of belief is way up here but the person listening their level of belief is way down here. It becomes challenging. But look what Jesus did. He said, "But when he had put them all outside, so he took all those unbelievers, sent them outside, says, "You go out here, you know, and he he's taking control of the situation." So he's grabbed the father, the mother, the of the child and those who were with him, those are the disciples that he selected and entered where the child was lying. That was our opening scripture. Then he says he then he took the child by the hand and said to her to Lethkakumi which is translated little girl I say to you arise. Immediately the girl arose and walked for she was 12 years of age and they were overcome with great amazement. Now not everyone responds the same way and I really want to point this out here while we're here. So take a look at the Pharisees and the Sadducees and the Herodians. They saw the same miracles as these people did and they thought he was filled with a demon, a devil, be elabub. So, everybody has their own opinions and what have you. But where's your belief? Because now I'm going to ask you a very personal question. Do you believe that someone could be raised from the dead? You might be thinking, "Well, that might have been done in the past. It might have been done in the Bible, but they can't do it anymore today. I promise you, those miracles are still happening. You're just not hearing them. You're not seeing them. You're not looking in the right place. But I will tell you this, it starts with you trusting in God. It does start with trust. How do you get to this point where your level of belief can change? Because that's what you need to look at now. Are you are you going to continue to believe that no one could be raised from the dead? That's a very good question. You have to realize some point in your life, you heard these things. They have to be real. Somewhere along the road of life, you've got to realize this could happen in my lifetime. Maybe I could raise someone from the dead. You know, as a believer in Christ, when you start to walk with God, I mean, Peter walked on water with Jesus. I know I've tried walking on water. By the way, I failed every single time. But that doesn't mean my level of belief says I can't. I know someday maybe I can. Even uh Martha when he raised Lazarus from the dead. I know we'll all be together in our kingdom at the end here. And he's like, but you got to believe here and now. And you can see even I have my limitation. So how do we get our belief to go from here to here in the now? So let's continue on. Let's look at another event here. Mark 9 uh 21- 27. So we're further along in the book of Mark. So he asked his father, "How long has this been happening to him?" That's Jesus talking. The father brings a child over to him. And this child is convulsing. The body is thrown into fire. The body is thrown into water. They have to pull him out to save him. Otherwise, this demon that he's possessed with is going to try is trying to kill him. And it's a deaf and dumb mute type of demon. So Jesus is asking the father, "How long has this been happening?" And he said, "Well, from childhood and often he has thrown him both into the fire, into the water to destroy him. But if you can do anything, have compassion on us and help us." Jesus said to him, "If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes." I'm gonna pause there before we finish the event of this um casting of this demon. All things are possible if you believe. If you believe you can fly, all things are possible. It's what Jesus said. Where's your belief? And I'm gonna tell you right now, all of us are hesitating because how far can I take that belief? Sure, I believe eternity. I'm saved. I'm a Christian. He's got me. He's getting me to heaven. But what can I believe in now today that wow will take us to whole new heights and levels. All things are possible to him who believes. Now let's look at what Jesus does here. Immediately the father of the child cried out and said with tears, "Lord, I believe. Help my unbelief." Well, there's an oxymoron, right? You know, a contradictory statement. I believe and then help me with my unbelief. In other words, he's saying, "Listen, I went to you. I found you because I heard you're the one who can raise people from the dead. I heard you're the one who can cast out demons and you've been doing it all this time. So, I believe." But then he's also saying, "I haven't seen it personally and I really truly don't know, but I'm asking you to help me with my unbelief." Oh, so now you look at this belief and unbelief situation. This man literally identified himself in the very moment I'm talking about here. So your eyes on the heavenly things where you see spiritual things or are you like it looking in the physical? My car is broken down. It's going to take weeks. I have to get the money for it. I have to do this. But do you believe that it can be fixed now? Or do you believe it's not even broken? You know, when my family moved from um really southern part of uh California, the Wilmington area over there, and they moved to the uh Riverside area, the night of the day, the late afternoon is the last man leaving, my father. He shares his testimony. Car would not start and then he would get it to go. He'd be able to go um you know, a few hundred feet or so. it would break down. It was like something was just keeping him back from leaving. So he knew, he was praying. He kept turning it on, kept going, got onto the freeway. Once he passed the LA County line, car ran fine. There was nothing wrong with the car. Do you believe? Where's your belief? Where's your unbelief? For that matter, do you ask Jesus to help you with your unbelief? That's very important here. This man is saying, "Okay, I need you to fix my son. I am seeing my son go through this torment and I do not want him to go through that because he is my son. I want him saved. He We've had to take extreme measures to take care of him. But you're here because I heard. So, I'm believing and yet I'm asking you to help me with my unbelief." Where do you stand with Jesus? Do you talk to him? Because I'm going to tell you right now, you don't see him. You can't see him. But the moment you talk to him, you're talking in faith to a being that you don't even know for sure exists until you start talking. And then when you see him move in your life, you're like, man, he's real. And your level of belief goes up and up. So let's continue on. So when Jesus saw that the people came running together, so now he's got a huge crowd coming up here. He's, you know, going to cast out this demon. this crowd's coming. He rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, "Deaf and dumb spirit, I command you, come out of him, and enter him no more." Then the spirit cried out, convulsed him greatly, and came out of him. And he became as one dead, so that many said, "He is dead." Jesus took him by the hand and lifted him up, and he arose. So the demon came out of him. The child is now clean. Now, I'm going to add an element here that I want you to see. So, with the girl that he rose from the dead, Elisha was rose, excuse me, Lazarus was rose from the dead. The bones that were laid on Elash, Elisha was rose from the dead. When Jesus came rose from the dead and the graves opened, according to Matthew, a lot of graves open, a lot of people came out of the dead. Every single one of these people had to die again because everybody's appointed to die at least once. Hebrews 9:27. So because everybody has to die again. We have to come to the realization of the power and the authority that Jesus has and others. I've seen others raise people from the dead. I've seen it on videos. I and I've heard very good testimony that I trust and believe. So it happens but then that person does eventually die. Friend of ours, she wrote, she got her husband, he had a heart attack, she grabbed and said, "No, you're not dying now." And he lived. He lived for several more years and then he passed on. So they do pass away again. So raising someone from the dead, I want you to have that concept to realize it's the here and the now. for you in your authority you have with God. And and I'm sure what this does to your belief level now, like, well, wait a second. Do I really want that power and authority? Well, think about it this way. We're told we can live a long old life as long as we put God first, do his commandments first, seek his presence. I've been teaching on this for many, many teachings. You can go check all that out. We're told we can have that. We can do that. So that means I've got to follow the commandments of the Lord. I can live a long life. David lived so to such an old age that he had to have they hired a a virgin girl to lay and warm him up at night and cover him with the blankets to keep him warm till he passed on in his old age. So he was blessed with old age. We're we can be blessed with old age. So yes, we can will eventually die. But if someone dies prematurely, yes, we should bring them back from the dead because they were promised to live a long life. You see, now your level of belief should be going up because this is your power and authority as a believer in Christ that you can do this, which means infirmities. You can cast them out. You can get rid of sickness. You don't have to be sick. And I'm trying to teach this freedom in being a believer in Christ. Why? because that's the promises that we have. Go back to what Jesus said. Look it. Jesus said to him in verse 23, "If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes." So you can be not sick, you don't have to ache, you don't have to take pills. Your level of belief has to come from here to here. Which means you have to unlearn some things. We were grow raised and grown in a community where you get sick, you call the doctor, you go visit the doctor, he gives you a pill and you feel better. Takes care of the symptoms. It doesn't take care of the root cause. Sometimes these symptoms continue to repeat and you have to repeat taking pills. Hence the pharmacy industry and its multibillion dollar industry. It's because that's what we were taught as kids. We have to unlearn that and realize Jesus is our healer. Where's your level of belief? See, the devil's done a great job to bring your level of belief down. He's done a great job in the Western Hemisphere to keep you from realizing that we can cast out demons, that we can uh raise people from the dead. He's done all that and he's done an excellent job. Continue here. Look at Jude in verses 20- 21. But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. How do you keep your level of belief up? Right here, building yourselves up on your most holy faith. You have to keep talking to Jesus. That's your faith. Jesus, where are you? He's right here. And he keeps telling me, my Bible's over there. I was going to grab it. He keeps talking to me through the Bible and I keep reading it because I want to hear more about him. I want my level of belief, my level of faith to go up. So, I keep building it up every single day. Look at this. Praying in the Holy Spirit. I, you know, when you get baptized, you're filled with the Holy Spirit. That's when the Holy Spirit fills you up when you get water baptized. And that's when you can go into ministry. So you've got to keep the Holy Spirit in you talking. You just keep talking with God. Speak in tongues. The the word of God is complete and tells you everything. And you need to keep coming back to it to continue to build yourself up so that your faith goes up so that when you see them pushing a new drug, you don't fall for the hype of it all. You because you would already be healed. you'd be in the presence of God going, "Man, you know, I'm not sick. I have been." And you know what? I'm going to tell you this much. If you got symptoms of whatever it is, and you you haven't been healed of that yet, I promise you that if you're a believer in Christ and you're spending time with the Lord and you just haven't been healed of that yet, and I'm a walking testimony of this, I promise you that if you would, he will take you all the way to the end of your days, old life, all the way to the end of days with that same thing. It will not go any further than where where you're at. Now, you can reverse it once you believe, but you got to believe. All things are possible when you believe according to Jesus. So, let's look at this belief. How do we believe? It becomes it's a trust issue. Now, look at Ephesians 1:12 and 13. That we who first trusted in Christ should be to the praise of his glory. In him you also trusted after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation. In whom also having believed, look at that. Having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise. Once you became a believer in Christ, you confess Jesus. You said, Jesus, you know, I'm sorry I messed up. You took a leap of faith. And that is trust. And because you did that, you're aware. See, inside each of us, there is a knowing that we know that there is God and he exists. He's right here with us. And we may deny it. We may want to rebuke it. We may want to walk away from it. But the reality is it's there and it's truth. It's a faith though, a trust that you have to build into so that you can take your level of unbelief to belief to take your eyes off of, oh, well, you know, those those people that ridiculed Jesus, we knew. No one comes back from the dead. They should have known. They should have seen what happened when those bones were laid on Elisha. It was a story of old. Obviously, they hadn't seen it in their lifetime. And obviously, they hadn't heard that story or they didn't believe that story. One of the two. And they ridiculed him. They didn't even want to give him a chance. They were just like, "We know what's right. We know no one comes back from the dead. We know. Do you really? Do you really know everything? You're not God. Humble yourselves. Realize that. Hey, am I putting my limitations on God and what he can do? Yes. When you think you know something, you're limiting God and his capabilities. God created the heavens and the earth. And because he did that, he can do anything. If he wants me to turn blue, he can make me blue. He wants me to not breathe ever again but keep me alive. He can do that because he's the creator, the almighty powerful one. Now, does he do that? No. Uh but he could if he wanted to. Which means if he wants to bring somebody back from the dead, you better believe it he can. Especially when he's made his promises to say that you the believer who trust and walk in faith and spend time with me and have a relationship with me and you are righteous in me then you will live a long life. He has promised that that is in his scriptures homework. Go check it out. Go check it out. Look at what faith is. Hebrews 11 1-3. Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good testimony. You see, you hear testimonies, and if you're not hearing testimonies, your faith isn't moving. You see, you've got to hear the testimonies. You got to go out and look and find them. Yes, you need to go search. Go find them. There are testimonies. If you're gathering around in your Bible studies at your church or you're going to your church, churches are starting to share the testimonies because they're realizing how powerful it is. It's got to take the level of belief from here to here. Why? We have a generation right now that remember they took the Bibles out of school, they took prayer out of school. These kids do not know God. So in order to get them back to God, they got to hear the testimonies and they're going to be like, "Really? Really?" Nah. But they hear it. It starts the act to activate the faith in them. By faith, we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God. Didn't I just say that God is the creator of heaven and earth? And because he created that, like I said, if he wanted me to live without breathing, he can make me live without breathing. That is God. And because he, the word of God framed it and put that in context for me, it helps me take my level of belief from here to here. Meaning that if I'm dealing with some kind of sickness, just because I can't get rid of it at that moment, doesn't mean it's going to be prosperous. It doesn't mean it's going to be fruitful. It doesn't mean it's going to hold me back because God is in control. And if he wants me to continue living, he wants me and he does, then I will continue on moving on until he's ready to take me home. When I'm ready to finally be done with that sickness and disease, then God is right there with me and he will hold my hand and he will walk me through it. And I'm telling you, I'm a walking testimony personally in that area. framed by the word of God so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible. So faith is something you can't see. So the moment you start talking to God, guess what? You can't see him. Look at this. I want you to see something because Romans describes this perfectly that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, this is Romans 10:9 and 10. And believe in your heart. So confess with your mouth. So the moment you speak at Lord Jesus, you see every sickness that you're dealing with, you say Jesus, you are Lord over cancer. Jesus, you are Lord over asthma. Jesus, you are Lord over allergies. Whatever it is that you're dealing with, the moment you confess, Jesus is Lord. Same thing with your salvation. You said, "Jesus, I'm sorry I messed up." You said, "Jesus, I'm sorry." Go back to the thief on the cross. Jesus saved that man just from acknowledging his guilt and saying to Jesus, "Remember me." He talked to Jesus and Jesus saved him. So your eternity is saved. The moment you say, "Jesus, I'm sorry." Now, when you say, "Jesus, I declare Jesus over whatever sickness it is." Look what he says. And believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead. Well, how do you believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead? Jesus, I know you're there. I can't see you. You see, that's your act of faith. And the moment you are acting that faith, you're believing in Jesus that you can't see, but you know that God raised him from the dead because he's not dead. You see the level of belief now goes from here to here is building. Look what he says. Raise him from the dead, you will be saved. Another word for saved is delivered. You will be out of that sit. You're free. The moment you believe that Jesus is alive. He came out of the grave. You are free. You no longer have to live in bondage. The devil tells you otherwise, but you don't have to live in bondage. You're not even sick anymore. You just don't know it here yet. Mind over matter. I've done teachings on this. Go back to my old teachings. But look what he also says because he goes further and and and explains it more. For with the heart one believes into righteousness. You see all of a sudden now when Jesus forgives you, you're righteous. Jesus says you're righteous. Means you have the blessing of long life. Meaning sickness can't touch you. Isn't that amazing? And you and you just got to believe it. But the moment you talk, you're you're automatically believing it. You just haven't manifested it yet. You can look what the next part says. I'm with the mouth, confession is made unto salvation or deliverance. Because the moment you speak, so the every time, you know what? Every time you say, "Jesus, you are Lord over this bum knee." No, Lord, I'm not going to call it a bum knee anymore. Jesus, you are Lord over this knee, and it is perfect. And you keep saying it over and over over my neck, over my shoulder. You say the name of Jesus. You know what? I had dealt with depression 30 plus years ago. And that was what I was doing. I once I realized I had to ask the Lord, what what's going on with me here? And he showed me. And once I got that realization, I shut that door. I said, "No, no, no. Depressing depression be gone." And I said, "In the name of Jesus, you will not be of in this life, in this body. I will not deal with depression because I am not a depressed individual. And people think I'm animated and excited and always smiling. Why? Because I took that evening and I went after it with the name of Jesus. And yet I did it over and over and over again. I went to bed even thinking it sleeping going into my sleep that night like that. I woke up the next morning. I'm going to tell you, man. I w I that that depression was gone there. You feel the difference. Anyone who's dealt with depression knows what I'm talking about. Big difference. You feel light. You You feel free. Now, I felt like I had been in a punching match. You know, my body had been hit all over the place, but I wasn't depressed anymore. And I never been since. Tries to creep in every once in a while, but I recognize it. And I say, "Nope, I already kicked your butt. Get out of here." And it leaves. It has to because I've dominated and I overcame. Because I'm more than a conqueror. I'm an overcomer. and I did that. You are an overcomer. Jesus has given you these blessings. Why? Because you're spending time with him. You put him first. Seek first the kingdom of God and all these things will be added to you. You get to have all these. So, first, if you're not spending time with the Lord, which I've been preaching on, so I'm assuming if you're watching this video, you're spending time with the Lord. If not, get into it and start your routine. And then here's the best part of it. Cuz you're doing that and the Lord changes you. By the way, you your mentality changes in your relationship with him. You have a boldness and a confidence where you can go to him and say, "Uh, this shouldn't be bothering me. Why is it happening, Lord?" And you name you say, "I'm putting the Lord Jesus over this and I'm casting it out and giving it to you, Lord." And I promise you, you will see God move in your life and your level of belief will go from here to here. And it is amazing. So yes, if the Holy Spirit convicted me, if I'm in a situation where I see somebody dying prematurely for whatever reason, I'm gonna grab him and say, "Stand up in the name of Jesus." That is the authority that you have as a believer and you need to get your level of belief from here to here. Notice what that father of that child that was demonposses Previous Next Home

THE DAY OF SALVATION The objective of this message is to emphasize the urgency and present reality of salvation, reminding both believers and unbelievers that today is the time to accept Christ and walk in His grace. It aims to encourage Christians to live out their salvation daily through ministry, service, and consistent faith, while also calling unbelievers to repentance and relationship with the Lord before it is too late. THE DAY OF SALVATION Minister Lisa Kane February 29, 2024 Objective: The objective of this message is to emphasize the urgency and present reality of salvation, reminding both believers and unbelievers that today is the time to accept Christ and walk in His grace. It aims to encourage Christians to live out their salvation daily through ministry, service, and consistent faith, while also calling unbelievers to repentance and relationship with the Lord before it is too late. Synopsis: Lisa Kane begins with prayer and introduces the central scripture from 2 Corinthians 6:1–3, highlighting that now is the “accepted time” and today is the “day of salvation.” She explains that salvation is a present reality secured by Jesus’ sacrifice, and that God calls everyone to receive it without delay. The message distinguishes between simply being saved and actively living in a relationship with Christ. Lisa urges believers to deepen their walk with God through prayer, study, and ministry, while reminding unbelievers that repentance cannot be postponed. She draws from Isaiah 49:8 to show how Paul ties Israel’s restoration to the broader call of salvation for all people. She critiques the modern romanticizing of five-fold ministry roles, clarifying that ministry in its truest form is simple service—acts of attendance, aid, and love. Using Jacob’s transformation at Peniel (Genesis 32) as an illustration, she shows how wrestling with God leads to personal transformation, just as salvation transforms every believer. Lisa also unpacks Paul’s teaching in 2 Corinthians 6:4–10, where ministry is lived out in all circumstances—whether in patience, affliction, dishonor, joy, or sorrow. She stresses that salvation must be exhibited daily, even when believers feel weak or inadequate, because God’s Spirit empowers them to minister in every season. The message closes with encouragement from Philippians 2:12, urging Christians to “work out their salvation with fear and trembling,” not in vain but with a life that demonstrates God’s love, truth, and power. Lisa reminds the audience that whether strong or struggling, rich or poor, every believer is called to manifest the joy and reality of salvation today. ✨ In short: This teaching stresses that the day of salvation is now. It calls unbelievers to repent and receive Christ immediately, while urging believers to actively live out and exhibit their salvation through service, endurance, and daily ministry empowered by the Holy Spirit. Inspired Teaching: Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kane and recording this on Thursday, February 29th, 2024, leap year. Welcome. This message is called the day of salvation. Let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word. We thank you for your blessings and favor on us, Lord. And and we pray and ask that we we hear your word and we apply your word to our lives, Father God, because this is an awesome message. And I thank you for the revelation of this message. And I pray that we can all take a part of it and run with it and hold on to you as tight as we can. Father God, in the name of Jesus we pray. Amen. And amen. All right, let's go to our opening scripture here. This is called the day of salvation. Our opening scriptures is in 2 Corinthians 6:1. We then as workers together, together means cooperation with him, beseech or call near, invite you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain or empty. So we're going to be talking about the day of salvation here. Today is the day of salvation. We are in a time period of salvation right now which is absolutely incredible and I hope that you get this and you understand it. So we are going to be talking about the day of salvation. salvation is. And if you notice here, we work together in this salvation. So, we're going to be talking about ministry work for believers. If you are an unbeliever and you are hearing this message, now's the time to repent. I encourage you to call on Jesus. You need to. We all need to. We have all fallen short of the glory of God. So, now's the time to repent. And now's the time to get ready with the Lord. If you don't have a relationship with the Lord on top of your salvation, meaning you're spending time with the Lord and getting to know his word, you're asking questions. He's answering because you're reading and praying. Uh that's the relationship value there. If you're not doing that, you need to because now's the time to get ready. He is preparing us for his return. Now is the time to get ready. This is called the day of salvation. Amen. Let's continue on to verse two. Uh here in 2 Corinthians 6, we're going to read verses 2 and three. Verse two, notice, okay, it's got parentheses already around it. That's because that is in the Bible. Okay, the parentheses are already there. I didn't add them. So, what I did is I added brackets for the bolded word. So if you see the bolded word in brackets afterwards, those extra words are other words that the bolded word could have been translated as. It gives us a deeper look into the scripture and I like teaching that way. So that's what you're seeing on the screen in front of you. So now this particular verse two is a reference to Isaiah 49:8. Paul is partially quoting that scripture. We will look at Isaiah 49:8 here in a moment. So let's look at what Paul says. He says, "For he saith or he's laying down." And by the way, this is God talking that he is referencing. Says, "I have heard thee in a time accepted," which means approved. And in the day of salvation have I secured or helped thee. Behold now, meaning present time is the accepted, the approved time. Behold, now is the day of salvation. I'm going to stop there. The day of salvation is this time here and now that we're in right now. How do I know this? Well, the day of the Lord has not re happened yet. That's a big day of taught on it. It's a day where there's an invasion from Gog and Magog into uh Israel and they're all killed. God stops and there's a day of darkness. It is a day, a dreary day, lots of rain, hail. It's a big earthquake going to happen that day. that has not happened yet. Okay? So until that day happens and and by the way at that point the rapture happens. So the body of Christ will be removed at that time. Until that day happens we are in what's called the day of salvation. It's because what Jesus did is when he was crucified he redeemed all of us. He paid the price for our sins, yours and mine. And because he did that, we have redemption, a free gift. It is salvation. Jesus says, "I'm going to forgive you of anything and everything." All you have to do is confess. Romans 10:9 says that if you confess with your mouth, Jesus is Lord and believe with your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. It is a very simple matter of fact. That's your salvation. Remember the thief on the cross? He never got water baptized. He never went door todo. He never was fruitful. He never multiplied. He never got a chance to live for Christ because he died on the cross and that was it. But he was saved. So s the day of salvation is now. And we're going to look a little more. And I just did a teaching on the difference between living for the Lord and just being saved and the different levels of different Christians throughout the world. That is true. It is a fact. You can go take a look. I have a different level of my belief and faith may be more higher than others and it's still lower than others. I'm not at the top and I will never proclaim to be at the top, but there are those that are and I and God bless them. So, each of us have to kind of work out our salvation and get to that. So, that's what this salvation message is about. And I want to show you how Jacob did it. But before we get there, let's read the rest of the scripture because I want to bring this all to life. Verse three, giving no offense, stumbling or occasion of sin. That's what the word offense means. Giving no offense in anything that the ministry be not blamed. That ministry is attendance, aid, service. Okay. So, I think in today's time, and maybe I'm being a little overdramatic about it, but I think that the body of Christ has romanticized the five-fold ministry, uh, evangelism, apostilhip, prophet, teaching, um, and I can't think of the other one right now, but, uh, we've romanticized it and put these people that do these ministries up on a pedestal. But look at what the word ministry is. It says attendance, aid, service. That's all we're doing. Listen, we're all as human as you are. All we do is spend time in the word and ask the Holy Spirit for revelation of that word so we can come and teach it to you because we are called well in my case I'm called to teach and preach the word of God which is means I'm a minister. I minister the living word of God to you and I do this on a weekly basis. In fact, what I do is an online ministry which is supplemental to you joining your body of Christ or your church in your sanctuary. This is just additional to kind of get you through the week. Gives you um I hope I'm teaching a little more in the meat area a deeper understanding of the living word of God than what your pastor can teach. Your pastor teaches but he teaches as a global over uh he covers the whole church, the whole body of Christ. So he can't do individual teachings and and to the body of Christ because he has to keep his body together and bring them up together. So there's going to be in that body more that are uplifted and closer to God than others. So he has to keep a balance whereas I have the opportunity to come in here and teach a deeper meaning, a deeper level of the word of God. And I hope that you are blessed by it. Amen. So that's what this is about. So when you become saved, that salvation should not be empty vain. We saw Paul talk about that. He says it needs to be filled with something that is the spirit of God. So let's continue on and read um and now I want to quote this is the scripture that Paul quoted in in verse two of Corinthian first Corinthians 6. So this is Isaiah 498. Let's read the whole scripture. Thus sayeth the Lord, in an acceptable, which is a delight or favor time, which is now, have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee. Now, here's the rest of it. and I will preserve or guard thee, give thee for a covenant or promise of the people to establish the earth to cause to inherit or occupy look at this the desolate which is the stunned deficit stupified makease heritages. Now he's talking to Israel here. Now Israel has become a nation again. It is a shock to the world. Israel is the fourth largest nation in the world to provide food for the world. And there a little teeny thing. But that's Israel because God has allowed them to occupy that desolate land that Mark Twain talked about back in 1800s when he wrote about Israel, how desolate and wilderness the place was. But look at what God has done. And it amazes people. It stupifies them and it it stuns them. So God did that with Israel. Paul is quoting that scripture. He's quoting the beginning part. He says, "This is the day of salvation and I have helped thee." meaning he's helping us here and now so we can walk in the ministry of the day of salvation. Because we today, any preacher, any minister, any pastor, any evangelist, any any teacher, any person in the five-fold ministry, our objective will always be salvation and grace because Jesus is in the business of salvation. He's here to save people. He says, "I will forgive anyone of anything at any time." That is what you ought to grab on. The only one who does not forgive all the time, anytime, and all the time is uh the Holy Spirit. And what that is, it's a voice in the back of your head. So when you get saved, you see, even before you get saved, there's something in the back of your head talking to you. He's saying, "You want this?" And you know why it was funny? My dad was talking about the day um the week before he got saved back in 1976. He remembers it. He was watching people in the church. He happened to go to church and he's watching the delight and the joy of their heart as they praised and worshiped the Lord. He says, "I want that." And the next Wednesday service that they went to, they didn't want to wait till Sunday. They went Wednesday night and they went up and got uh saved. They went and accepted the Lord in their heart. There was an altar call and they went up forward. Every pastor, every preacher, every evangelist should be talking about salvation and letting everybody know now's the day of salvation. Now is the time to get saved. It is very important that you do this. You see, I I want you to understand, I know we're all attracted to the end time events, especially uh not just the day of the Lord and the rapture, but really about the sevenyear tri uh uh seven-year time period of God's wrath. We have to be very careful about that because see our goal and objective is try to not get anybody to get there. So to even teach that you can get saved during that time is not biblical. Now there will be people who will be martyed during that time for Christ because they're not going to accept the mark of the beast and they're going to end up dying for what they believe in. But that doesn't mean they're saved during that walk. It means you have to die for it. Now, we really don't even know that to be true. I say it because that's what a lot of theologians teach. The seven thunders are going to speak and they're going to tell you how to get saved. At least that's what I believe in. But remember, God told uh or the angel told John, "Don't write what the seven thunders say." See, they don't want us to know what's going to happen in that time period because now is the day of salvation. This is the time period where we need to be saying, "Get saved now. Don't wait any longer. Now is the time to get saved. Amen. So, this is what we're talking about. Let's go to Romans real quick. Romans 11:25. For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant, which is not to know or lack of information of this mystery. It's a secret. Watch what he says here. This is very important. Lest ye should be wise in your own conceits. See, we're wise in our own conceits to even think that we know what the seven-year time period of God's wrath is all about. If you're a believer in Christ, you will not be attending that time frame. Our time comes when the fullness of the Gentiles is complete. I will show you scripture on that. And that's what I'm actually showing you right here. He says, uh, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits. that blindness and by the way that word blindness means stupidity or callousness in part is happened to Israel until the fullness or completion of the Gentiles which is a race a tribe foreign become in or enters in we the Gentiles the body of Christ came into existence the moment Jesus rose from the grave he taught it as the kingdom of God in in his three three-year ministry that he had when he was crucified he went to the grave for three days. He rose from the grave and before he left he walked on the earth after death for 40 days and appeared to over 500 people at one time. This is all eyewitness testimony in the Bible in the four gospels and in Acts. You can read about all of this and what they have what happened. It's your choice whether you want to believe it or not. So the day of salvation began with Israel. the law. They had to present the law and Jesus fulfilled the law. And he says, "Now I'm telling you to love your neighbor as you love yourself." And that is a commandment. So he's saying, "Now is the time to confess me as your Lord and Savior. Now is the day of salvation so that you can get saved." And I already taught about the difference between living with Christ and living not with Christ. But in your ministry, whether you are on high for God or you happen to be down here, you're going to see Paul tell us that our ministry should still be an exhibit to those around us because the salvation of the Lord is today and we ought to be sharing that no matter where we are spiritually. And Paul is teaching this and you're going to see this here in the scripture. Now, that means this fullness of Gentiles is going to come to completion on the day of the Lord because we do not teach salvation in the seven-year time period of God's wrath. This is just more scripture supporting that. And I I hope you're understanding that. And I hope you're watching these last several videos I've taught on this because I really want you to see and know we have to be teaching the now, the grace, and the salvation of today. We want to be aware of prophecy. We want to know that this time is coming to an end. But at the same time, this just means we need to be more urgent with what we're teaching. Amen. So there is coming the fullness of the Gentiles will be completed and then Israel will continue on. Now Israel needs to be saved. So Israel who has rejected Jesus, they're going to go through the seven-year time period and God is going to save them. He is their help and he's going to work walk with them during that time period and that is all biblical. They're going to be 144,000 male Jews are going to be sealed of 12,000 of each tribe. They're going to have to run. They're going to run to the hidden place that God has for them right in the middle as soon as the abomination of desolation happens. So that happens in the seven-year time period. It's right in the middle. They're going to run because they're going to see all of a sudden they've been following the Antichrist and they're going to become aware and they're going to get saved. So God has a plan for them. But the body of Christ is not in that plan at that time. So today is the day of salvation. Today is the day that we need to be saved. Amen. Now in Genesis, I want you I want you to see something. This is so powerful. when you get saved and there there won't be an emptiness there. It won't be vain. You're going to have a spirit of God talking to you and there is going to be a transformation. Now, sometimes the transformation takes place and it's instantaneously. Other times it takes a little more time. I want to show you something in the Old Testament that had me weeping so much. I don't even know why my spirit was weeping so much, but it's so powerful. I hope that you catch this and I hope that my spirit with the Holy Spirit is imparting this uh feeling and this joy to you because today is a day of salvation. You're going to see what happened to Jacob when his day of salvation took place. Amen. Okay. So, we're going to go to Genesis 32 and read verses 24- 28. Let me give you a background before I begin reading. Jacob has spent I think it's about 20 years. You can go read that part of scripture. He spent seven years in Laban trying to get his wife Rachel. Now Laban and Leah, I guess Leah is the older daughter, I think. And Jacob worked seven years for Rachel, but they tricked him and put Leah there. They put so much heavy veils that he didn't see her. He married her and went and consummated the marriage and realized I got the wrong wife. So he ends up working another seven years for Rachel. So he was there 14 years and I think he was there another either six or seven more years there. But in the meantime, he has two wives. And he ends up getting 12 children. Uh some through the handmaid handmaidadens because there was a jealousy going on, a rival between Leah and Rachel. So you can read all of that. This is how the 12 tribes of Israel comes into existence. Now notice his name is Jacob. Watch what happens. He He He's leaving Labon Laban. He's leaving him. He's now going to go see his brother, Esau. Now, the last time he saw Esau, they didn't part in good terms. He ran from Esau. Esau got mad. He was able to manipulate Esau to get his birthight from him. And Esau was mad, but Esau sold it for a bowl of food, a plate of food. So anyways, they left in bad terms. So now Jacob is coming back. So he sends messengers ahead and Esau responds by bringing him and 400 of his men toward Jacob. So he's marching toward Jacob. So Jacob's thinking, "Oh my goodness, he's going to fight me and my family." Jacob doesn't have an army. Jacob only has this family and his servants and his cattle and all he's doing is trying to find a better place, a bigger place to get out of Leon Leon. Layman, I don't know how to say his name. I'm going to say Layman. Layman had tricked him and manipulated him for the past 20 21 years or however many years it was, but he had uh tricked him, had changed his wages multiple times, tricked him with the different wives. So he is now finally going to leave and go back. And now he is scared because he thinks his brother's going to defeat him. So he separates his family. This has got to be the craziest thing you have got to ever hear. He's not thinking that his family is going to be defeated, per se. He's putting him in safe places, but he's doing it in such a way that he can save at least half of his family, but he doesn't know which half is going to be saved. So he is distressed. He is distraught. He is vexed. He is in a place that he doesn't want to be in and but he has no choice. So he's got his family all separated. He is by himself at a peak, a precipice that he names Penny later. Now watch this. Says here, "And Jacob," which by the way that name means heel catcher, was left alone. He's now separated from his family. And there wrestled. Oh, I want you to see what this word wrestled means. To float away as vapor, grapple, a man with him until the breaking of the day. He's wrestling with a man. And that word wrestle is to grapple, but it has a vapor quality to it. Watch. Let's read the rest of it. And I want to show you something here. And when he saw that he prevailed not against him meaning God is realizing see Jacob is wrestling with the spirit of God. He is wrestling with God and God is not winning. Obviously God is letting Jacob win here but watch. So this is and when God saw that he prevailed not against him he touched the hollow of his thigh and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint as he wrestled with him and he said this is now God talking let me go for the day breakth and he said I will not let thee go except thou bless me so Jacob is like I got you and I'm not letting you go till you bless me oh watch this and he said to him this is God talking to him what is thy name and he said, "Jacob." God said, "Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel, he," which means he will rule as God. For as a prince hast thou power, prevailed with God and with men and hast prevailed. So he prevailed with God and with men. That is what the name Israel means. Now I want you to understand this happened in the physical in Jacob's day. Now prior to this moment the people always talked about the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac. They never talked about Jacob because he hadn't been transformed yet. later on when his brother approaches him because you know now he had his his transformation his salvation took place he's no longer empty he's realizing he named it pineal because this was a place he wrestled with God and saw the face of God and he lived through it so he had a transformation so what he did is he tells his family but they continue forward Esau approaches him and hugs him. And Jacob is seeing God for the first time move in his life. Now, I want to ask you a question. Today is the day of salvation. Are you wrestling with God? He's going to let you win. That's the revelation here. Now, I want you to see the ministry part of it because there are days you're going to feel like you can do ministry work and there's going to be days you can't because we're still flesh. So, look at what Paul says about ministry and the salvation that we have within our soul, within our spirit. Watch what he says in our work that we do for Christ when we live for Christ. because that transformation takes place just like Jacob. We see God move and yet still we have down days. So Paul tells us what goes on. Watch this. He says we're back in 2 Corinthians 6 starting in verse four. But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God. Now watch this. He says in all things. So he's going to tell you in the good and the bad and in the in the evil and the good. He's going to show us this. I want you to see some key words here. Approving means set together, introduce, exhibit ourselves. Look at the word ministers. To run errands, attendance of God. So we're to do God's ministry. This is what we're called to do here in the day of salvation, which is today and now. But not all days do we feel like it. So he says you need to exhibit yourselves as ministers in everything. So he starts in look he goes in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments, in tomalts, in labors, in swatchings, which is sleeplessness, in fastings or abstinence, in puress, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost. When you don't feel like praising and worshiping the Lord, you still need to do it because you need to be ministering and exhibiting your ministry through the Holy Spirit and through all things. He continues on and by love and look at this and he says unf by love unfeigned which means you need to whether you're loving with through benevolence by giving gifts and being there for somebody just letting them cry on your shoulder if that's what you have to do or even when you don't feel like loving them you still got to exhibit your salvation that God has transformed in you. Amen. So, he's showing us how to do it. He says, "By the word of truth." You still got to do it by the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armor. You've got tools of righteousness on the right hand and on the left. You see, these are things that we have even when we don't feel like it. Continuing on, look at says by honor and dishonor. There going to be days you're going to honor your parents. There going to be days you're going to be mad at them and you're going to curse them. Honor and dishonor. says, "By evil report and good report." Look at this. As deceivers and yet true because there days that we like to manipulate things because we're the flesh. We think it's easier to lie or to to deceive somebody, you know, like maybe this is better for them. You know, we keep the truth from them because then they'll might do this or do that or whatever the situation may be. You know exactly what I'm talking about. And the Holy Spirit is showing you that. Well, guess what he says? In that, you still need to exhibit your salvation. You see how important this message is? We need to be exhibiting our salvation of the Lord because today is the day of salvation. Whether you feel like it, whether you're lying, whether you're cheating, whether you're an adulterer, whether it doesn't matter. You are still having to exhibit your salvation. Look at what he says as unknown. Because now you got people who say, "Well, I know the right way. This church teaches God the right way. This church I'm of Apollos. I'm of Paul." It doesn't matter. It's the day of salvation. It is of Jesus. What he did on the cross. He died for us and then he rose from the grave. And that is what we teach on. And that is your knowledge that you should have in the day of salvation. See, it says as unknown or lack of information and yet well known as dying because even as you're dying in a hospital, you should still be exhibiting. My time might be coming short here, but you know what? I give God the glory because he has given me a great life. And you know how many people you will minister to when you say things like that is awesome and powerful. And yet, and behold, we live as chastened, educated, or trained up as a child and not killed. We can come become dead. We didn't let this world die or kill us. We didn't let the enemy take us down and keep us down. So he's saying even in that fight, you are exhibiting the day of salvation, your ministry. Hallelujah. Look at this. He says, "And even as sorrowful yet always rejoicing to be full of cheer, as poor yet making many rich, as having nothing and yet possessing all things." So even if you're rich or even if you're poor, you are exhibiting your ministry. Whatever it may be, it could be baking cookies. It could be just smiling to people. It could be just telling people, "God bless you at the grocery store." It's your ministry because it is your salvation. It is what the Lord has transformed into you. And today is the day of salvation. And every one of us is a part of the body of Christ, the kingdom of God, and the church. And we should be marching in this exhibit displaying the day of salvation because it is now whether we feel like it or not. This is our ministry. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. And let me show you how we know to do this even further than what Paul tells us. Look at Philippians 2:12. Where wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed or listened attentively, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence. Work out your own salvation with fear and treble trembling. And look at salvation is rescue safety. You see, when you are demonstrating that you're praying for people in the hospital, that you're going there, you're texting them, you're on, you're you're letting them see other people are you're letting them cry on your shoulder. Other people are watching this and they're like, "Wow, this is neat. I want this." And what happens is when they get saved, you show them the day of salvation, how to exhibit the joy in their heart, however way they're feeling, because it is the spirit of God. Is not by might nor by power, but by his spirit. And so all things that you do needs to exhibit the day of salvation. Amen. Amen. Let's do this and let us purpose it in our hearts. You know, I pray every morning this actually Monday through Friday. I do pray Saturday and Sundays, but I do a different prayer on Saturdays and Sundays. So, I pray every morning, but it's funny because there are days I'm praying and nothing. I mean, I'm I'm speaking the words. I may speak in tongues a bit, but it's there's really no I don't feel any movement. I don't feel like it. I'm tired. I'm sleepy. Um, but there are other days. Today is a great example. Boy, the anointing was so strong. So, it amazes me. So, there's just every day is a different day, which means we have to exhibit the salvation we got in that day, no matter what that day is. I hope you get this message and I hope that it encourages you to take that day and say, "You know what, Lord? No matter what this day is, I'm giving you the glory, honor, praise, and strength because you're still my God, my King, my Lord, and my Savior. And I'm still going to exhibit you. Even if I've got a cold, I'm sick, sneezing, whatever, I'm going to exhibit you. Oh, I'm going to exhibit your salvation. Oh, thank you, Lord. Thank you. Let's close in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word. We bless your word, let it not return void. Thank you, Father God, for letting our hearts be filled with joy and that that joy is always present and prevalent even when we don't feel like it. And teach us and help us have the strength to exhibit your salvation for what you've done in our lives daily, Father God. No matter how we feel that day and no matter what's going on on that day. Thank you, Lord. In the glorious name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. God bless you. I'll see you in the next message. Previous Next Home

SPEAK The purpose of this message is to teach believers the power of speaking the Word of God. By examining Ezekiel, John, and Revelation, the message highlights how eating (absorbing) the Word and then declaring it brings life, blessings, and protection. It calls Christians to actively confess the promises of God, speak blessings over themselves and others, and remain rooted in Christ as the ultimate living Word, especially in light of prophetic times. SPEAK Minister Lisa Kane January 8, 2023 Objective: The purpose of this message is to teach believers the power of speaking the Word of God. By examining Ezekiel, John, and Revelation, the message highlights how eating (absorbing) the Word and then declaring it brings life, blessings, and protection. It calls Christians to actively confess the promises of God, speak blessings over themselves and others, and remain rooted in Christ as the ultimate living Word, especially in light of prophetic times. Synopsis: The message opens in prayer, dedicating the teaching to the Lord and inviting His blessing. Lisa Kane introduces the theme “Speak” with Ezekiel 3:3, showing how Ezekiel had to eat the scroll before he could speak it. This principle is paralleled in John 1:1–5 and Genesis 1, where the spoken Word of God brings creation and life. The sermon emphasizes that God’s Word must not only be read but ingested—internalized—so that it can be spoken with authority. Lisa testifies from her own life how a remembered psalm she sang as a young believer eventually became a lived reality, demonstrating the prophetic power of one’s own words over time. Revelation 10 illustrates both the sweetness and bitterness of prophecy: while God’s Word brings life, it also contains warnings of judgment and tribulation. Lisa explains that our spoken words—whether blessings or curses—shape our lives, households, and communities. Speaking blessings brings God’s protection, provision, and peace, while careless or negative speech invites struggle. The message stresses that Israel’s restoration fulfills Ezekiel’s prophecy, showing the importance of spoken promises unfolding across history. As priests in Christ, believers are called to speak blessings over their homes, neighbors, and even enemies, interceding so that God’s goodness transforms situations. Lisa ties this to the gospel message in Romans 10:8–11, urging listeners to confess Jesus as Lord with their mouths and believe in their hearts for salvation. She warns that in the coming tribulation, the current salvation message will cease, replaced by a different revelation, making repentance urgent now. The sermon concludes with a strong call to action: speak blessings daily, declare God’s goodness over your life and surroundings, and watch His Word set boundaries of protection and provision. Believers are reminded that the bride of Christ is not appointed to God’s wrath, and those who confess Christ today will walk in His blessing and safety. Inspired Teaching: Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kane. I'm recording this on January 8th, 2023 and this message is called Speak. Let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we bless this message. It will be good and people will receive and understand and apply it to their lives. And I ask for your blessing on it as well so that they receive and apply it as well. And this message then is doubly blessed because I blessed it. You blessed it. Thank you, Father God, for your blessings. Thank you for your goodness, your holiness, your wonderfulness, Lord. And we lift you up and give you this message. This is yours. In the name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. Amen. Okay. So, before I get started here, just so you know, this is 2023, so we are starting off a new year here. What I did is I uploaded four messages from the past that were not on our website, and two of them are from 2004. And two of them are from 2007. Now, two of them are only audio. But oh my word, I'm listening to these this week and I was blessed. You're going to be blessed. Check it out. They're under the live video messages at this time. We want to feature them. I will put them in their permanent home on the website in probably a few weeks. But anyways, I'd like for you to check those out. You are going to be blessed. And they're by Pastor Marcos Morero. All right. So, this message is called Speak. Let's go to our opening uh scripture here. Ezekiel 3:3. And he said to me, "Son of man, feed your belly and fill your stomach with the scroll that I give you." So I ate and it was in my mouth like honey and sweetness. Okay. So in in order for Ezekiel to become a prophet, he had to eat the scroll, the living word of God. So so he had to eat it so he can speak it. So I got very excited about this message because I want you to realize that you and I've taught how to be a priest but even so to be that walking testimony you have to eat the word of God and you have to speak it to apply it to put it in action. So let us see how this goes. So Ezekiel was this way. He had to eat it and then he had to speak it. So he says and you know he said you got to eat the scroll. The scroll is the living word of God. How do we know this? Let's go to John. I want to make sure and give you the foundation of the scriptures here. John 1:es 1-5. In the beginning was the word and the word was with God. And the word was God. You know, pause there. In the beginning was the scroll and the scroll was with God and the scroll was God. So you see how Ezekiel applies to this. Let's continue on. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him and without him nothing was made that was made. In him was life and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness and the darkness did not comprehend it. Okay. So, now you have Ezekiel and you have John. John wrote his gospel uh about 2,000 years ago. Ezekiel wrote his about 3,000 years ago, give or take. I might be off by a 500y year mark there. I didn't look up the dates, but what I'm showing you here is that we're applying the living word of God and how we speak it. So, Ezekiel spoke it, John speaks it for Revelation. He becomes a prophet for Revelation. So, John is a prophet as well. and he ends up speaking the scroll. So watch how he says though he says it's in the beginning. And so we have to go back now to the very beginning because we have to see how the word became because once we understand that we can see the example set for us because we're inheritors with Christ. We are adopted and because we're a part of Christ, we get to speak the word and we get to apply it to our lives. Blessings or cursings? Let's go back to the beginning. So, we're in Genesis chapter 1. We're going to look at verses 1-4. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, "Let there be light." And there was light. And God saw the light that it was good. And God divided the light from the darkness. Jesus is the embodiment, and I've said this multiple times now, of let there be light. He's the numa, the spoken word. He became flesh. So Ezekiel absorbed him. John absorbed him. And what we've absorbed, seeing what they've absorbed is they absorbed the spoken living word of God. They ate it and they spoke it and it became actionable. Oh, you guys are going to love this. Let's go to Psalms. Psalm 53. My voice you shall hear in the morning, oh Lord, in the morning. I will direct it to you and I will look up. The reason I bring up this scripture, I want you to hear this testimony. This is my testimony. I'm so excited about this message. Okay. When I was a young adult, married, had a child already and um in my mid20s. And in at that time, you know, I was on fire for God for some time, sometimes I wasn't. Sometimes I was in church, sometimes I wasn't. I was going up and down like a yo-yo. One day I had prayed and asked the Lord, why am I doing this? this is you know disrespectful because you know how can you love something sometimes and not other times. You see what I'm saying? So it was very disrespectful for me. So I prayed that prayer but at the same time during that time I was remembering songs and I was remembering scripture and this was one of those scriptures I remembered and I kept singing it over and over again and I had to delve into because I didn't go look it up. You know back then it was a little different for resources. So no I didn't go to my Bible and just look it up and no there was no website to really go search for it. So I just try to remember and I remember it and I remember it and I will sing it. Sing it. Sing it. Look at that scripture again. Look at this. Says in the morning I will direct it to you and I will look up. My voice you shall hear in the morning when now in the last 101 15 years of my life I've been commuting to and from work uh an hour plus each day. And when I start my drive now I uh used to commute with my husband and carpulled. So it was kind of more of a quiet drive. We just talked and talked about daily things. Well, since co he's been working from home, so I do this drive by myself now. So, what I started doing is I do my praise and worship time at that time. And because I'm driving to work 6:00 in the morning, there's the sun peeking over the mountains. When I reach the top of Ortega Highway at, you know, 6:30 in the morning, I see the sunrise coming up, give or take about that time. And he I had this epiphany. That song, that psalm that I sang, spoke with my mouth became true. It is a prophecy that I placed on my life. Didn't even know it. And look, today I get to say, you hear my voice in the morning. And you know what? I wasn't a morning person back then. I am now because you know I got to get to work in early in the morning. But isn't that amazing how you can see the power of God work in your words and you don't even know it. It may not even take it could take hours. It could take days. It take in my case it took years to see this but is absolutely incredible. Let's continue on with this. Now in Revelation 10:es 8-11, then the voice which I heard from heaven spoke to me again and said, "Go take the little book which is open on in the land in the hand of the angel who stands on the sea and on the earth." So I went to the angel and said to him, "Give me the little book." And he said to me, "Take and eat it, and it will make your stomach bitter, but it will be as sweet as honey in your mouth." Then I took the little book out of the angel's hand and ate it, and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth. But when I had eaten it, my stomach became bitter and he said to me, "You must prophesy again about many peoples, nations, tongues, and kings." Okay, so you that's John. He is now he had to eat the book, the scroll. Ezekiel had to eat the scroll. Ezekiel prophesied many different things over the nation of Israel. John now is prophesied over people's time, everybody else. And the reason it's bitter is because he's also prophesying the seven-year tribulation that is coming. And that time that's coming is horrible. I do not wish it on anybody. I don't wish hell on anybody. I really hope that everybody repents and gets back into, you know, pray and and seek God because I'm telling you right now, you do not want to go because these are prophecies that John made and it was bitter. It made his stomach sour. But he had to say these are the prophets that had to speak these words that God told them to speak. So they spoke and these words are over us today and they are applicable. Now what I'm also trying to teach in this message not only to show you these prophets prophecies that are over us that are going to come to pass but to show you how your spoken word becomes a prophecy over you because you are a servant of the most high. You are a believer in Christ, you've acknowledged that Jesus Christ is the son of God. And by the way, those that don't acknowledge, your spoken words are over you as well. So if you're a cursor, somebody who curses all the time, those spoken words are over you. Imagine the frustration that you're living with when you don't have to when you can speak your blessings over your life. You know, and I want you to understand something. I'm not saying that you're going to be rich if you speak richness over you. I mean, you could be. God does anything and everything. You You got to understand that. But, you know, I've prayed for the lottery. I've not won it. But, I have a roof over my head. My house payment is paid every month. I've got food on the table. I've got extra blankets when it's cold. And I've got clothing that's applicable to who I am. I am not for need. You see, that's how the Lord works. That's how he blesses. He provides. I mean, he if he takes care of the birds, as he says in the gospels, he's definitely going to take care of you. So, I may not be speaking prosperity, if you will. But I am speaking blessings, but I understand and know that the seven-year tribulation is coming, which is hell on earth. And I know these things are coming. And as long as I acknowledge both, I'm not living in a fantasy world of richness here. I'm living in the reality of it. So I want you to understand though that even in this you know I got blessed with a huge raise uh last year and the year before which compensated for the financial economic situation we're in right now. It didn't impact me and my household at all. Ain't that amazing? You can see when the Lord is blessing you because you're speaking the blessings on your life that you are in good standing and he will cover you. And it is a miraculous thing. In fact, your borders, your boundaries are protected and the devil can't get to you. Go read Job and find out, you know, Job had a protection. The Lord allowed Satan to come through, but he couldn't get through until the Lord allowed him. You could always go to God and said, "Don't allow this Lord." All right, let's go back to Ezekiel 3:12. Then the spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me a great thunderous voice. Blessed is the glory of the Lord from his place. Now I want you to see God's glory is blessed. This is an angel that spoke this because God's voice is different than a thunderous loud uh loud sound. This thunderous voice was an angel. Whereas God's voice is living waters. You can go look that up. But you can see now his blessing is on the glory which is his boundary. Sin cannot penetrate. You see the enemy cannot penetrate. So God has his protection. So this angel spoke that. It was already spoken before. He's just reiterating it. Okay. Now let's go to Psalm 38. Salvation belongs to the Lord. Your blessing is upon your people. Sa God has already blessed us with his son Jesus. You just need to acknowledge, speak it, and you have that salvation upon you. And it's your boundary. It keeps the enemy from penetrating. Watch your words and speak the blessings. The moment you wake up, you need to speak your blessing on the day. It's going to be a good day. It's going to be a good day. No matter where I go to work, no matter what I do, I speak. It's going to be good. And then I bless it. And then I say, "Lord, I ask for your blessing." He already blessed in the word of God. And I can say, "Thank you for your blessing." Oh, hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Ezekiel 28:25-26. Thus says the Lord God, when I have gathered the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered and am hollowed in them in the sight of Gentiles, I want you to see something. Ezekiel prophesied this 3,000 years ago, but it's for today. Look at this. He says, "When I gather the house of Israel from the peoples among them whom they were scattered, God scattered the nation of Israel and they came back. And when they came back, they became a nation again in 1948. and the the Jerusalem became a capital in 1967. They're back. What? Look what he says here and am hollowed in them in the sight of the Gentiles. All of us who are believers in Christ know that God's chosen people are the nation of Israel. We respect them. We bless them. We pray for them because that's God's chosen people. They are hollowed in our sight. I'm a Gentile, but I believe in God and am I I'm adopted into his kingdom. So, I'm a part of this nation. And so, I bless them and I'm I just I follow them. I respect them. I give them up to the Lord. That's prophecy being fulfilled today. Let's continue reading that on. Then they will dwell in their own land which I gave to my servant Jacob. And they will dwell safely there. Safely there. Build houses and plant vineyards. Yes, they will dwell securely when I execute judgments, when I execute judgments, and all those around them who despise them. Then they shall know that I am the Lord their God. Listen, so even though we're speaking blessings, because then that puts that boundary around us, we know that destruction is on its way. Did you see they will be there securely? When Ezekiel prophesies in Isa in uh Ezekiel 38 about Gog and Magog, Russia and their allies attempting to invade Israel, God stops them. They don't get past the borders because nation of Israel is blessed because there's a spoken prophecy over them. Oh, this is so good. I want you to see that even though the seven-year tribulation is coming, destruction is coming, God's wrath is going to report on the earth, the boundary is around us because we're blessed because we're the bride of Christ. We're part of the nation of Israel now. We're part of this. We're part of God and we're blessed. We get to have what the world can't have, but they're dying and craving for it, but they can't have it. Oh, look at this. You guys have to understand that even though destruction is coming, God's wrath is going to be poured out. We have his blessings and we are protected and blessed. Look at this. Let's continue on. Ezekiel 44:30. The best of all first fruits of any kind and every sacrifice of any kind. From all your sacrifices shall be the priest. Also, you shall give to the priest the first of your ground meal to cause a blessing to rest on your house. Okay? I have taught you how to be a priest and how to atone for your household, for your neighbors. Oh, so you give your first fruits, you give your children, you give your husband, your spouse, your wife, you give your household to the Lord, give your neighborhood to the Lord. Let me tell you something. When you go to bless your neighbors, listen, listen to this very carefully. Let's say you live in a neighborhood and there's uh thievery going on. Bless them. Say, Lord, bless them with prosperity. Bless them so that they have the things that they need. And say, I forgive them of their sins, Lord, and I ask you to forgive them as well. And when you intercede on their behalf like that, what happens? Suddenly they're blessed. They've got goods. They don't want to steal from you anymore because they've got what they need. Do you see how much it impacts you when you bless your enemies? Oh, you got to grasp this. You've got to grasp this, my friend. You have got to understand that when you give the Lord your first, you give him your home, you give him your children, you give him your finances, you give him, you say, "I cast my cares on you, Lord, and I give you my first. I give you my food. I give you this is yours, Lord. And you're constantly putting God first. You make him the center of your life. And you have that relationship built. And you do this daily. This is all the time. And then you bless bless bless the land for rain. Look at what we're getting. We're getting so much rain. You guys could go back and watch my teachings. I've been praying for rain now for a little over a year. And I'm going to tell you, we finally got it. Yes, it is uh rough. We're having some destruction. I'm praying that people don't get hurt. But I am telling you, we needed this rain here in Southern California and Northern California. And it's finally coming back in because we can be restored because the enemy has tried to take that away from us, make us dry, make us hurt and suffer. We don't have to be that. We get to speak blessings. I speak blessings to the land that it will be rich and moist and will be fruitful and multiply. That is how it works, my friend. Speak. Speak up. You need to be speaking the best the blessings over your life and those around you. If you do your part and your neighbors do their part, everybody's doing their part. And imagine what the world will be like. You know, God then has to change, which he can do anything he needs or wants. But I'm going to tell you right now, whether things get changed or not, we have that boundary around us. And the prophecy still stands, he is still bringing his wrath, and it is going to be poured out on this earth. That is how this is going to be. Now look at Revelation here 1:3. Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written in it, for the time is near. I want you to understand as you're reading the word of God, you're absorbing, you're eating it, you're speaking it. The blessings are on the word that you speak and it becomes a part of your life. And this here is Revelation. This is the very beginning of Revelation where wrath is coming. So he's telling you, you've got to keep the written word. You've got to understand that even though hell on earth is about to break your boundary, your barrier, your blessing, because you are already dead to this world because you live for Christ. This world means nothing to you, but you have everything in it because of God. And the devil gets mad about that. He don't like that. But you know what? Too bad. so sad because my God Jesus is the son of God and I made him Lord of my life and I spoke him as Lord of my life and because he's the Lord of my life. He is the Lord around my household. He is the Lord around everything around me. That is Christ and he is good. Oh hallelujah. Speak the word of God. Romans 10 8-11. I want you to understand something here. I need you to understand so what we're preaching now. So even though we're preaching blessings, we are preaching salvation. This is what the bride of Christ is doing. This is our job. This is the current time. Understand this very carefully. We are preaching that Jesus Christ is the son of God and that you have to confess him as your Lord and Savior. And as you do that, you get salvation and the seed begins to germinate in you and you your life starts to change as you activate that seed. You have an action. You confess, you speak. Let's go look at the scriptures. This is the gospel now. Romans 10:8-11. What does it say? The word is near you in your mouth and in your heart. That is the word of faith which we speak which we preach. That if you confess with your mouth, you speak with your mouth. Do you see this? We're speaking the word of God the Lord g that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes under righteousness and with the mouth confession is made into salvation. For the scripture says, "Whoever believes on him will not be put to shame." This is what we teach. This is what we preach right now. This is what the body of Christ who are declaring Jesus as the son of God is teaching. But guess what? This preaching comes to an end. You will not be able to do this once you enter that seven-year tribulation. So I need you to understand why the bride of Christ does not go through the wrath of God. As you can see, when you speak and you confess Jesus as the son of God and ask him to be your Lord and Savior, that boundary is placed on you. You are no longer appointed to God's wrath. So, when day one begins of the 7-year tribulation period where Gog and Magog invades or attempts to evade Israel, they're killed, earthquake happens, sun goes dark, the moon turns to red. When all that happens on that day, the message, the gospel of Jesus ends. It stops. It is no longer applicable. Why? And how do I know this one? This is when the bride of Christ is going to be removed. We know the 144,000 are going to be sealed. They're going to get a uh something written on their forehead and then the two witnesses are going to show up. Then something happens. Let's go to Revelation. I want you to see there's a different salvation message in this time. Look at this. Revelation 10:3-4. And cried with a loud voice as when a lion roars when he cried out, "Seven thunders utter their voices." is now when the seven thunder thunders uttered their voices. I was about to write, but I heard a voice from heaven saying to me, "Seal up the things which the seven thunders uttered, and do not write them." For the first time in scripture, now Daniel's was also, so it's really the second time in scripture that the word of God is sealed. And in fact, this these words that the thunders uttered have not been shared. Daniel's book is now open and knowledge is expanding and this is why we can understand a little more about what the is going on in the seven-year tribulation. But you can see these words have not been revealed. These thunders are telling the people who are living on the earth at that time and remember the bride of Christ is already gone. The message of salvation is now gone. You cannot repent now. It it's not there. These seven thunders are going to tell you how to get saved. So, if you're still here during that time, you better listen and listen carefully. Now, some theologians believe that you're going to have to be beheaded. I don't know. I know that there are going to be sacrifices because they will be beheading people who will not take the mark of the beast. Don't take the mark of the beast. Whatever you do, in fact, I want you to see something here. Even if you don't believe, just don't take the mark of the beast because I believe that because you defend Christ, you reject the Antichrist, you're you're not accepting the Antichrist, I think you're going to still get saved. I want you to see something here in John chapter 9. Watch this. This is very powerful. Okay? And in to give you some context here in John chapter nine, uh, a blind man was born. And now he's a young adult or adult I don't know how old he is but uh uh God heals him and and he's got in fact the way the words are uh understood is that he has u no eye sockets he's born weird it's different and so the Pharisees Sadducees are saying well what sin did his parents commit that caused this guy to be born this way and you know and that is what it is there sin brings consequences uh that's why Some people have cancers. Uh depending on what sin you're doing, there are rare blood disease orders. Your city rejecting Christ. All that comes to haunt you later. And this is why you need to repent. Okay. So anyways, the Pharisees, Sadducees are asking, they're hounding this guy. This guy doesn't believe in Christ, but God created healed him. And in fact, Jesus says, "No, there's no sin here. I I just did this because I wanted you to see something." Okay, let's go see what Jesus wanted us to see. Watch what this guy does. This is the guy that got healed and he's saying he whether he talking about Jesus is a sinner or not. I do not know. One thing I know though that I was blind and now I see. Then they said to him again, "What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?" He told him, "I told you already and you did not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also want to become his disciples?" He's really taking them off. I'm telling you right now. But what happened is Jesus comes back to him later because he defended Jesus but he wasn't saved. But Jesus comes back, meets up with him second time and then converses with him and he gets saved. But you see how he defended Christ. If you're part of that seven-year tribulation and you reject the the mark of the beast, Jesus will save you. I want you to know that. I want you to understand that. You need to defend that Jesus is the son of God. It's easier if you do it now. Believe you me, you want to repent now. Don't wait for that time. And I already told you in many messages that that time is going to happen in our lifetime. When you start to see uh Mark, Matthew 24, Luke 21, Mark 13, those prophecy the spoken word when Jesus said there'll be rumors of wars and wars, Ukraine and Russia, Taiwan and China and any of the other places that are going on. You hear these things, you see these things. Look at what happened since 1900s. We've had World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Afghanistan War. We've had all these wars. And did you see that was like a 100 plus years ago that this all started? Then you have large earthquakes in various places. When's the very first large earthquake that began? Just a shy of 120 years ago. Hear these words, guys. Hear these words. So, and that was in 1906. And it was in April and it happened up in San Francisco. big huge earthquake. Wait a minute. Isn't that when the Isuza strike revival was going on? You guys got to go look that up. So all of that started happening and then pestilence and famines. Wait a second here. COVID HN1, SARS, AIDS. We've been having it. The black uh plague, the bubonic plague, uh we've been having these diseases hit us. And by the way, that was a resurgence of the bubanic plague in 1906, right around that same time. You go look all this up. All of this started. And when you see those prophecies get fulfilled, just know this generation shall not pass away. This is it. This is our lifetime. So now is the time to repent and get close to God. And you want to because then you can be like Noah. You can be like Job. You can be like Moses. You can be like these men of God who God called righteous. And you will know the mysteries of the word of God. You will know because he wants to share it with you. He told Noah, seven days in advance, I'm going to flood the earth, get into the ark. And he did. But the rest of the world didn't know. They were all unrighteous people. My friend, now is the time to repent. Now, now is the time to spend time with God and give him the glory and to speak the blessings on your life. Confess Jesus is the son of God. Confess that he's your Lord and Savior. And every morning you get up, say, "It's going to be a good day." Every night before you go to bed, is going to be a good night of sleep. You start speaking these blessings on you. Speak it over your neighbor. Speak it over your household. Speak it over your work. Speak and have blessings on your life. And watch the words that you say. So if you feel like you're coming down with something, don't say it. Say, "Nope, I don't have time for you. Get out of here. I am blessed. I'm healed. I'm good. And God has already blessed me." Hallelujah. All right. Let's close in a word of prayer. Father God, we bless this message. We thank you for your blessing on it. Oh, let us live it and apply it and speak your word and your blessings over our lives, Father God. In the glorious name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. God bless you and we will see you in the next message. Bye-bye. Previous Next Home

IS YOUR NAME WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF THE LIVING The objective of this message is to help believers understand the significance of the Book of the Living (Book of Life) as revealed throughout Scripture. It emphasizes Jesus Christ as the Living Word and Light of the world, showing how God has always communicated through the spoken and written word, recording covenants, genealogies, laws, and individual lives. The teaching calls listeners to examine their salvation, repent, and ensure their names are written in the Book of Life through faith in Jesus Christ. IS YOUR NAME WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF THE LIVING Minister Lisa Kane October 2, 2022 Objective: The objective of this message is to help believers understand the significance of the Book of the Living (Book of Life) as revealed throughout Scripture. It emphasizes Jesus Christ as the Living Word and Light of the world, showing how God has always communicated through the spoken and written word, recording covenants, genealogies, laws, and individual lives. The teaching calls listeners to examine their salvation, repent, and ensure their names are written in the Book of Life through faith in Jesus Christ. Synopsis: Lisa Kane begins with John 1:1–5, showing Jesus as the Word and the Light that overcomes darkness, and ties this to Genesis 1:1–5, where God spoke light into existence. She highlights Jesus as the physical embodiment of the Word—spoken, written, and living—through whom creation, redemption, and revelation flow. The message then journeys through biblical references to many “books” mentioned in Scripture: the Book of Generations, Book of the Covenant, Book of the Law, Book of Jasher, Book of the Acts of Solomon, Chronicles of the Kings, and others. These writings reveal how God ensured His covenants and commands would be preserved for future generations, combining the power of both the spoken and written word. Building on this, Lisa explains that God also keeps personal records: a book written about each person (Psalm 56:8; Psalm 139:16). Every life, every choice, and every moment is documented by God. Most importantly, she stresses the eternal significance of the Book of the Living (Book of Life) (Psalm 69:28; Philippians 4:3; Revelation 3:5; Revelation 20:15). Those whose names are written remain in fellowship with Christ, while those not found are condemned. The message challenges listeners to repentance and faith in Jesus, reminding them that God records not only their sins but also their salvation when they confess Christ as Lord (Romans 10:9). Through Christ’s blood, believers’ names are permanently secured in the Book of Life, and they are called to walk as His representatives—lights in a dark world. The teaching concludes with an urgent call: Is your name found in the Book of the Living? Through repentance, obedience, and faith in Jesus Christ, every believer can be confident of their salvation and live as a testimony of God’s light and truth. Inspired Teaching: Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kane. I'm recording this on Sunday, October 2nd, 2022. And this message is called Is Your Name Found in the Book of the Living? Amen. Let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we bless this message and we thank you for your blessing and anointing on it. We thank you for teaching us who your son is, our foundation, our strength, the living word of God. And we thank you, Father God, for all that you're doing and all the things that you're teaching us. We receive, we believe, we apply, and we're walking in your word. Thank you, Father God, in the name of Jesus. Amen. Amen. Let's go to our opening scripture here. John 1, we're going to read verses 1-5. In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God. And the word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him and without him nothing was made that was made. In him was life and the life was the light of men and the light shines in the darkness and the darkness did not comprehend it. King James version says did not overtake it. So um in other words the light is stronger than the dark. The light penetrates and the darkness cannot defeat it in any way, shape or form. Amen. So notice it talked about going back to the beginning. Let's go look at those scriptures in the beginning because I think there's a correlation here. Let's see what we're talking about here. Genesis 1 1-5. Oh, look at that. We just read John 1 1-5. Now we're going to read Genesis 1 1-5. Look at the similarities here. This is incredible. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. Then God said, "Let there be light." And there was light. And God saw the light that it was good. And God divided the light from the darkness. God called the light day and the darkness he called night. So the evening and the morning were the first day. Okay. So now you see kind of a a similarity and a reversal because in the beginning there was darkness and God created light. And then you can see in John he's saying the word was with God. The moment that God said let there be light that was a spoken word. Now who claims to be the light? Because now once we see and understand this we're going to enter uh find something very interesting here. We're going to see the son of God become real. Watch this. Jesus in John 8:12 says, "And Jesus spoke to them again, saying, I am the light of the world. He who follows me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life." Okay. So, we know that the light was spoken. So Jesus is out of God and he is the son of God. God calls him his only begotten son and he is the word, the word, the spoken word, the numa, the power, the authority. Hallelujah. He is the light. Now, what's so interesting about this is that throughout history, because the physical embodiment of the word of God did not take place till Jesus was born, books were written. Lots of books were written. Some were lost. Some were found again. And those books pointed to Jesus. and not only pointed to him as the light but as the son of God, our redeemer. Because you see in Genesis in the beginning, God already knew that the fall of man was going to happen and that was going to be well could have been it. But he sent his son and in fact he sent his son before he created us. Hallelujah. Because he said, "Let there be light." Let the sun come. Not the sun, su n, but the s o n. Let there be light. Let there be Jesus. Let's go back to that. I want you to see something here. Going back to John 1-5. In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God. So God put himself into a word. Now there's something very interesting here. I want you to catch this. He put himself into the word. So when Jesus was born and Jesus started walking on the face of this earth, Jesus was the embodiment of his spoken word. It's the flesh incarnate but as God. He walked the word. He was the word walking which which is why he healed so many people because he's the numa the power the word that said let there be light. He is that portion. So, what I want to do is I want to take you onto a journey here and and show you how the written word works. How the spoken word works. Okay? Because Jesus became the embodiment of it. He was the physical living word walking the earth. So, but before he became that physical word, he was a spoken word and God used speak and he used written which is all part of the language to communicate to us. So the reason I'm addressing the idea of being in a book format or let's say a video 3D video or let's say a written format or and again the spoken word these are things that God measures us by and Jesus is the first example to set that in motion as the numa because because he is the light everything he touched and did it was power and we're to be like him. God made us in his image and as his image, we're his representative. Are you seeing something that we're going to be going through? Okay. But anyways, I want to show you how powerful the written word is when it is touched by God, covered by God, and known by God. So, we're going to talk about some books. Yes. some written books. I'm going to take you through the journey of the Bible that talks about all the different books. It's well worth this going through this list. So, this is definitely a different kind of teaching, but I want you to see how true the embodiment of Jesus as the living word of God, the the Bible, the written word. He is the living. He became the the persona of that. So let's start with our first um word that was brought to our attention. So in uh in Genesis 5:1 there is a thing that's called the book of the generations of Adam. This is the book of the genealogy of Adam. In the day that God created man he made him in the likeness of God. Now remember Moses wrote Genesis. He started writing a book about the gen genealogies under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit or of God the light. Amen. Look at this. Now there is called the book of the covenant. Then he took the book of the covenant read it in the hearing of the people and they said all that the Lord has said we will do and be obedient. E Exodus 247. So, as you can see what God did here with Moses, who wrote the first five books of the Bible, he wrote a genealogy and and I'm sure they were all separate scrolls. They were put together later on. Okay? So, I want you to see how this is dealt with and they're written at different times. Now, in this case, Moses wrote those first five books. He wrote the covenant down. There is a covenant between the nation of Israel and God. And you can see the people agreed to do it all. So it was written down by Moses, but it was spoken to the people and they acknowledged. So now you see how the written portion worked and the spoken portion worked and how the two came together. Now why did it have to be written? Because there going to be generations of people coming and they were not there at the assembly when it was spoken. So they got to read it to be a part of that covenant and grasp onto it and then acknowledge it. Okay? So it's a continuation on because we don't live forever. Everybody has to die at least once. So let's continue on with more books. Look at how this goes on even further. There is a thing called the book of the wars of the Lord. Interesting. This is in Numbers 21:14, the first part of the verse, verse uh A. Therefore, it is said in the book of the wars of the Lord. Now, if you're curious about what that book entails, go read the story associated with those scriptures. I have a lot of content here. I can't go off into the rabbit trails and and go into all the stories there, but I want you to realize there's a whole lot of books here. So, wars of the Lord. Interesting, isn't it? Look at this. Now, we have what's called the book of the law. If you obey the voice of the Lord your God to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law and if you turn to the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul. Deuteronomy 30:10. Now the book of the law is encompassed with the book of the covenant. And again, Moses wrote all of that. This is Deuteronomy and they're talking about the blessings and the cursings there. And remember what I talked about in our last message that I taught that we are the image of God. We represent him and as such you have the authority to make peace or calamity because you are a representation of God and that is what God does as he said in Isaiah 45:7 to King Cyrus 400 years in advance. Isn't that awesome? So let's continue on and look at all these other books that the Bible is referring to. But keep in mind what these are doing. God made a covenant with the nation of Israel. He made a law. Okay, so I'm going to pause here for a moment and tell you why he did what he did. Remember, we're in his image and we represent God. And as that representation, the nation of Israel represented to the world the law. And the law said, "You're a sinner." And so all the people of the world who looked at the nation of Israel in those days saw that they were sinners and as a result they knew they were in the wrong and they had to go to God to find how to get saved. The nation of Israel was the ones pointing this out. Okay. So now as you know nation of Israel had many kings, many generations that followed and as a result the book of the law, the book of the covenant that all encompassed together with the nation of Israel was a written statement of something spoken to the first generation in relation to all of that. What Moses had to do was take the people out of Egypt. that first generation and on were the ones who received this covenant and they said they agreed that let's do this. So now the following generations had to do it. So you had to have this written word. So this is what's taking place here as we look at these books. Now let's continue on. There's another book here called the book of Jasher. So the sun stood still and the moon stopped till the people had revenge upon their enemies. Is this not written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven and did not hasten to go down for about a whole day. Joshua 10:13. Again, I encourage you to get in there and read what that event was about because that is a powerful event that took place. Joshua is now the leader of the nation of Israel and he is uh taking the nation of Israel into the promised land. Okay. So, this is what he had to do. And he's having to attack all the people, the inhabitants of the lands at that time and kick them out because that land was promised to the nation of Israel by God to Abraham as a covenant. Remember, we've got covenants that took place. So, here's where things get very interesting. The book of Jasher, that book exists today. and it is not part of the canon that the the whole encompass of what the Bible is today. So, you know, I don't know what went into that committee that put the canon together. You can look that up and research that. What I'm going to say is that the Bible of itself is for your spiritual growth. any extra books that the Bible points to because the Bible is pointing to the book of Jasher has additional information that you can use for historical purposes. One of the things that I find interesting about the book of the of Jasher is Abraham, his youth, how he finds God and how he acknowledges that's not written in in uh gener Genesis. So, you might want to go back and look at the book of Jasher and check it out because he does talk about that those kind of things. And of course, there's a whole lot more in the book of Jasher. So, by all means, get in there and check it out. And so, let's continue on uh with some more books because what you know, I want you to see the power of the written word from a spoken word. I want you to see the history of how this is happening. So, and there are more books. By the way, I'm not going to go through all of them. There are so many I can't cover them all. Please do your homework. Get in there and check it out. It's awesome. Okay, we have the book of the acts of Solomon. Now, the rest of the Acts of Solomon, all that he did and his wisdom, are they not written in the book of the acts of Solomon? And this is in first kings 11:41. Now, what we have in the Bible is the Song of Solomon. That is not the acts of Solomon. So, this book is different. It is separated. So it and it could be referring to the proverbs. So they call it proverbs but it could be the acts of I don't know but the bible is referring to it. This book exists. And look at this one. The book of the chronicles. Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam. How he made war and how he reigned. Indeed they're written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel. First kings 14:19. Kings and Chronicles tell the same thing, but from two different perspectives. You've got the Kings, which tells you from the human physical world what physically happened. It's a documentary of what the Kings did. Chronicles takes it one step further and God shows you the behind the scenes and says, "This is what was going on spiritually." So, you might want to get in there and read the two and compare them side by side because I think you're going to find there was so much more going on. And again, with that spiritual stuff going on, that written word, the com covenant and the law and all how all the kings were dealing with it plays a huge role in their witness and testimony to the world that God held them responsible for. Let's continue on because there's so much more here. Watch this. There is the book of the kings of Israel and Judah which I just referred to a bit ago. So all Israel was recorded by genealogies and indeed they were inscribed in the book of the kings of Israel but Judah was carried away captive to Babylon because of their unfaithfulness. 1 Chronicles 9:1. Okay. So you saw kings referring to Chronicles. Now Chronicles is referring to Kings. So the two go hand in hand but one is written of the the uh perspective of man and the other is written by the perspective of God. Amen. Now we have what's called the book of Samuel the seer. Now the acts of King David first and last indeed they are written in the book of Samuel the seer and the book of Nathan the prophet and in the book of Gad the seer 1st Chronicles 29:29. You see how many books were written? Those books are not in the Bible. Samuel is, but Gad, let's see, it was Nathan and Gad. They're not in there. Where are those books? But it talks about King David and all his acts. And Samuel already covered it. So, I suppose I just did not need to be there. So, but you see how it was documented, written, and everything. Now, look, we're going to see here in the book of Nathan the prophet. Uh now the re this is now going into Solomon's reign. It says now the rest of the acts of Solomon first and last are they not written in the book of Nathan the prophet. Look at this. In the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite and in the visions of Edo the seer concerning Jeroboam the son of Nibbat. 2 Chronicles 9:29. Look at these other books. They're not in the Bible, but they exist or they have existed and they were written and they could be with all of wherever uh the temple uh stuff is if it survived the length of time. And then we have the book of Shemiah the prophet, the acts of Rayoboam, first and last. Are they not written in the book of Shmiah the prophet and of Edo the Seir concerning genealogies? And there were wars between Rayoboam and Jeroboam all their days. 2 Chronicles 12:15. So now you're starting to see a little bit more of what's going on. They they've been documenting history. You see that they're fighting internally now. Uh you had King David, you had Solomon, and now the split of Raoboam and Jeroboam. And the nation of Israel splits. And you've got the nation of Israel and you have Judah. So this is and it's going to be like this. Remember though, they are supposed to be in the image of God and they're supposed to be following the covenant of their predecessors. Watch what happens. This is fascinating, you guys. This is really fascinating. There's the book of Joo, son of Hanani. Now, the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, f first and last. Indeed, they are written in the book of Jahu, the son of Hanani, which is mentioned in the book of the kings of Israel. 2 Chronicles 20:34. Look at this. There's what's called the book of Moses. And they removed the burnt offerings that they might give them to the divisions of the father's house of the lay people to offer to the Lord as it is written in the book of Moses. And so they did with the cattle. 2 Chronicles 35:12. The book of Moses might be a different book altogether than any part of the first five books of the Bible. It could be reporting uh uh pointing to a section that was consolidated in the first five books of the Bible. It is very difficult to tell as to what that is cuz so many generations have passed now and people call books differently different names and refer to them differently in their generation than what was pre previously there. So hard to tell but you see that there's another book. It has to be written so the next generation can get it. But they got to read it. Watch. Let's go on. Let's continue on. Here we have the book of the records of your fathers. Remember what I just said. Talk about a new name. But this is a new name. But this is referring to the five first five books of the Bible and the Kings and Chronicles. Look at this. says that search may be made in the book of the records of your fathers and you will find in the book of the records and know that this city is a rebellious city harmful to kings and provinces and that they have incited edition within the city and former times for which cause this city was destroyed. Ezra 4:15 you I want you to see something here. Look at what it says. Catch this. And you will find in the book of records and know that the city is a rebellious city. They had to go look to see what happened in history. Do you see how they did not know? Anyways, let's continue on because I got two powerful things here next that is just it is going to change you on the inside, especially if you love God with all your heart. Look at this. There's a thing called your book and we're going to look at Psalm 56:8. You number my wanderings, put tears into your bottle. Are they not in your book? And then there's this other verse in Psalm 139:16. Your eyes saw my substance being yet unformed. And in your book they all were written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them. God has a book about you. He is writing down everything about you and what you do. Now, he when you were born, he writes down the moment actually before you were born and you were fertilized or conceived, God knew your name, knew what you were going to look like, and he wrote it down. He has this book and he wrote it down. And in that book that he wrote it down, he has been writing down things about you and what you did. And I bet you he even wrote down what he foraw or foresees of your future. And but he wrote down what you ended up having done instead of what he had planned for you. Everything is written in there. So, I'm hoping that if you are listening to this or catch on that you repent and then God says, "Okay, he repented. Here we go. We're going to continue on. Watch the change in his life." Amen. Hallelujah. So, God has this book and it has your name on it. He has a book of Lisa. Oh my word. I It's not a book I want to read. But anyways, God is so mindful of us. He loves us that much. Hey, I bet he because he tells you how he says he knows how much hair you have on your body at any given moment. He might write that down. I don't have a copy of the book in front of me, but God does. And he's sitting there writing it. I can see him even writing that. Oh, hey, Lisa's teaching me teaching the people about the books. Let that touch you. Let that minister to you. Amen. Continuing on, we've got what's called the book of the living or the book of life. Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, not be written with the righteous. That's in Psalm 69:28. And I urge you also, true companion, help these women who labored with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow workers whose names are in the book of life. Philippians 4:3. He who overcomes shall be clothed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name from the book of life, but I will confess his name before my father and before his angels. Revelation 3:5. Let's continue on because there's more references to the book of the living. All who dwell on the earth will worship him whose names have not been written in the book of the of life of the lamb slain from the foundation of the world. Revelation 13:8. And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and books were opened. And another book was open, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged according to their works by the things which were written in the books. Revelation 10:12. And anyone not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire? Revelation 20:15. The title of this message is, "Is your name found in the written in the living, the book of the living?" Well, I hope it is. Anyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Joel 21:13, Romans 10:13, make sure that you call on the name of the Lord and get saved. Amen. So, and you notice that referred to a whole lot of other different books. Now, let's continue on here. We've got the book of the generations of Jesus Christ. And here in Matthew 1:1, the book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham, and it lists all the genealogies. Again, how did Matthew know? He also went back and looked at the previous books. So now I want you to see something because you should have a particular reaction to this, especially to the book of the living part and to the fact that God has a book written about you that's going to be opened up on the day of judgment. I want you to see what happened when some of these books were lost and how a particular king reacted to it. This is so powerful. Look at this. Second Kings 22, we're going to read verse 8 and 11. Then Hilkaya the high priest said to Chaffon the scribe, "I have found the book of the law in the house of the Lord." And Hilkaya gave the book to Chiffon and he read it. And then in verse 11, and again, you know, you go and read the stuff in between. Find out what it says. Go find out how it got to the king now because we're talking the priest's duty. The the handler found this book and he's reading it and he's like, "Hey, you got to go read this thing. This is interesting stuff." Now, he's going to read it to the king. Watch what happens when he he gives it to the king. He says, "Now, this is verse 11. Now it happened when the king heard the words of the book of the law that he tore his clothes. He rent his heart. He repented. Hallelujah. So the book of the covenant, the book of the law that told us what we were sinners fallen. This is why we had to know about the book of Genesis. This is why we had to know about the fall of man. It told us what happened, why we're born into a spiritual war. why we're here today having to deal with why do bad things happen. You know, this is why all these books had to be written because we're a new generation. And when we come into the picture, we have to pick it up and read what happened in the past and either accept it or deny it, reject it. I encourage you to accept it because the the power of the word of God, Jesus being the embodiment of the the spoken word of let there be light and he is the light and as that power Numa and that he walked around. I mean even when he came out of the grave uh it was written uh from the um historian of the time and I can't think of his name for the life of me at the moment but they wrote about how many other people came out of the graves. It's also the end I think at the end of book of Matthew and all these other graves open and imagine that's how powerful this word is. light came into existence as soon as God said it. He's got to be careful with what he says, right? He has to make sure that he says proper things. Otherwise, he could end things and just like that. But he spoke that he said that he came out of the grave. That power just brought all these people up out of the grave at the same time Jesus came out. So when Jesus was revealing himself, Aunt Martha came over and and walked up to the household there and said, "Hey guys, I'm back. I gotta tell you about Jesus and where I was." And there goes that spoken word again. And then it got documented. And because it got documented, we can read it today and go and receive like the king did and repented. remember and and because of these old books. We're made in his image. We would never understand that or know that because you God is spirit. We can't see him. I must resemble him. I must look something like him. You resemble him. You look like him. But we're representations of him. We represent him. And as we would never known had we not heard that word now. So, we know that the nation of Israel had a responsibility to the world and that covenant took place. It was written and then it was spoken. Look at what it says because you need to know it because now we're you got to see the conclusion of what happened with the nation of Israel. You see, what happened is Israel rejected Jesus Christ as their Messiah and the Messiah was cut off. That's scripture. He went on, but he's coming back as king. So he he completed his priestly duties. He needed to do his priestly part. He did that. He completed. He got cut off. So God says, "You rejected me. I'm going to go to the Gentiles and I'm going to create a bride of Christ." And that is us today still relying on the covenant and the promises made to the nation of Israel who represented God during that time and wrote it down so that we can speak it again because it was already spoken and apply it to our lives today because we are in his image. We represent him. If he can create peace and he can create calamity, we have the responsibility to create peace and to create calamities. Amen. So watch this. Look at what Deuteronomy says here. Uh Deuteronomy 28 1-3. Now it shall come to pass if you diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God to observe carefully all his commandments which I command you today that the Lord your God will set you high above all nations of the earth. And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you because you obey the voice of the Lord your God. Blessed shall you be in the city and blessed shall you be in the country. And there are many more blessings there. Get into the word. Find out what it means. find out because it is your responsibility to look at the old word and see how it was spoken, how it was agreed to, and then it was written so that you can read it, speak it, and apply it and live it today. Hallelujah. But there's another part to that. Look at the other part. Says Deuteronomy 28:15-16. But it shall come to pass, if you do not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all his commandments and his statutes, which I command you today, that all these curses will be upon you and overtake you. Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the country. Why do bad things happen right there? You're cursed. And it's because you're just not following the commandments of God. You're not repenting. Jesus is the light, the embodiment of the word of God. And that covenant went into place and we get to live that covenant if we choose to do so. It's your responsibility to choose. So is your name written in the book of the living or is it blotted out? You know, once again, Jesus write or God writes about you. He's got your name written there. But as long as you don't repent and you do not follow his commandments, it gets blotted out. But once you repent, you're saved. And it's written in blood. Because Jesus gave his blood as the light. He gave his blood to say, I know you are going to be there for me. I know you're going to call on my name. I'm going to save you and you're going to be saved. In fact, Jesus is there fighting for you, praying for you, lifting you up before God. And God is writing in his book going, "I know Lisa's got it. I know so and so's got it. He knows, talk to him. Put the covenant into practice. Speak it. Say, "Yeah, Lord, I'm going to do this. I'm going to follow your commandments. I'm going to love you. I'm going to lift you up. Why? Not just because I can get the blessing, but because you're God. You're my maker. I'm the make. I was made. I'm the created, but I'm in your image. And I thank you for adopting me and bringing me into who you are. Because let's remember what's going to happen here. He still has to finish dealing with the nation of Israel. That's what the whole sevenyear tribulation is about. If you read the book of Revelation, Daniel. So, he still has to deal with him, which means we have to as Gentiles be our representative to the world right now because that is our calling. And that means we also have to stand up as Christ represent to the world and get ready because Harpato is going to happen here once he seals 144,000 because the 144,000 will become the new representation to the world for God, their image. They're made in his image and we will be taken out in the nick of time. Amen. So let's continue and look at here what it says here. John, I want to say it again. This I can't stress this. Then Jesus spoke to them again saying, "I am the light of the world. He who follows me shall not walk in darkness but have the light of life." John 8:12. In other words, because you accept Jesus, you make that covenant with him. You repent. It gets spoken. It gets written in God's book. You become a light. The light comes on and now you represent the world. And every emotion, everything that you deal with, everything that goes on in your life becomes a a written testimony to the world in God's book. And in fact, you're probably going to be judging people. The millennial reign when that happens, you know, the martyrs and those harpazzo, they're going to be judging. That is, you know, you're in preparation today for that coming up. So you need to be ready because and God is writing it down. So if he's writing it down, he knows maybe you might want to be a little clean. Might want to fix yourself up a bit. Oh, God's looking at me. Oh, God's thinking. Oh, he's writing down. It just it's a great motivator. It helps you stand, but at the same time, you can say, "Thank you, God. Thank you for saving me. Thank you for being there. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for making me the light and being a part of Jesus and being a part of the bride because remember he chose the nation of Israel. I'm not Israeli but I am now because I accept Jesus as my Lord and Savior and I'm adopted into the family. So can you. And let's continue on here. John 3:21. But he who does the truth comes to the light that his deeds may be clearly seen and that they have but been done in God. So as you do your good deeds in the light, God sees, he records and documents in his book of you. And as you go on further walking with the Lord, those things get documented. He's And you know what it why do you write a book? Does he go back and read? Does he see the changes in you? Does he acknowledge that? Yeah, that's God. Oh my word. He's absolutely incredible and amazing. And you know what, guys? You need to repent. This is remember now we've been talking about the whole word spoken, written. Now look, look, look, look what it says. Romans 10:9, that if you confess with your mouth, how could Paul say it any other way? It was perfectly said that with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you will be saved. Hallelujah. And your name will not be blotted out of the book of the living. You were already known by God at the moment of conception or the moment of fertilization. He knew you and he started writing his book about you. You are made in his image. You are a representative of him. You can choose to walk in righteousness and be blessed or to choose to walk in darkness and be cursed. If your life is full of drama and calamities, you might want to reconsider because I'm gonn Previous Next Home

SEVENTEEN Equip believers to recognize and respond to a God-timed “completion of a spiritual cycle” symbolized by the biblical number 17—moving from bondage to breakthrough. By the end, listeners should (1) understand the scriptural patterns and symbolism behind 17 (7+10; 7th prime), (2) discern the church’s present call to come out of graveclothes like Lazarus—through repentance, deliverance, and praise-warfare, and (3) actively posture themselves for awakening and fruitful service as God restores spiritual order. SEVENTEEN Pastor Marcos Marrero March 5, 2024 Objective: Equip believers to recognize and respond to a God-timed “completion of a spiritual cycle” symbolized by the biblical number 17—moving from bondage to breakthrough. By the end, listeners should (1) understand the scriptural patterns and symbolism behind 17 (7+10; 7th prime), (2) discern the church’s present call to come out of graveclothes like Lazarus—through repentance, deliverance, and praise-warfare, and (3) actively posture themselves for awakening and fruitful service as God restores spiritual order. Synopsis: The message begins with praise (“Hallelujah”) and its universality, then turns to the urgency of our times—persecution of believers globally and intense cultural opposition—framing this era as the threshold of an awakening. The central theme is the biblical meaning of numbers, especially 17, presented as the completion of spiritual order (7 = spiritual perfection; 10 = ordinal/perfect order; 17 as the 7th prime intensifies “seven”). Scripture patterns are traced to show how God “closes cycles” at 17: Joseph: 17 when his destiny is announced (Gen 37:2) and Jacob lives 17 years in Egypt (Gen 47:28), bookending a providential arc. Jeremiah: purchases a field for 17 shekels (Jer 32), burying the deed as a prophetic sign that God will restore what seems lost after the exile’s cycle. Paul catalogues 17 adversities in Romans 8 to declare that nothing can separate us from God’s love—His purpose outlasts every cycle. This numeric thread widens into a prophetic reading of current history: approximately 17 decades since a nationwide awakening, suggesting the church is at another 17-moment. The speaker shares a night-watch encounter: hearing (by the Spirit) the stone rolling away from the church’s “tomb,” likening today’s church to Lazarus—loved by Jesus, called forth, yet still wrapped in graveclothes of iniquity, bitterness, and control (Mary/Martha motifs). Jesus’ next command—“Loose him”—frames the ministry emphasis: deliverance, soul-tie breaking, inner healing, and removing veils so vision returns. Further biblical anchors include: Hebrews 12: contrast between Sinai’s terror (law exposing our need) and Zion’s joy (the church gathered under Jesus’ mediating blood), implying a cycle from fear to sonship. The Fruit of the Spirit (linked to “the ninth month”) as the character core God is forming as He calls His people out. 153 fish (John 21) as 9 × 17, interpreted as harvest at the end of a completed cycle. The sermon weaves in a personal testimony of deep cleansing and a vision of dwelling in God’s house—Word, table, presence—as the means of sustaining deliverance. It culminates in praise-warfare (Psalm 149): high praises in our mouths and the two-edged sword in our hands to bind spiritual rulers, executed not in presumption but in purity (“Satan has nothing in me”). Call to Action: Embrace God’s present timing. Submit to cleansing, renounce hidden iniquity, sever soul ties, devour the Word, and lift high praise. As the “17” clicks into place and the stone rolls back, step out of the grave, get unwrapped, and take your post—ready for awakening, exploits, and the restoration of divine order. Inspired Teaching: Hallelujah. Glorios. Can you imagine? We're that close to actually coming face to face to the throne of God and going out in front of Jesus and say glorios in another language. I mean, we're not going to speak English over there, you know. We're all going to speak Hebrew, the original Hebrew, I guess, that God had. So, we Hallelujah is, by the way, one of the words that was never broken in the original language. Hallelujah means praise ye the Lord. And it was never broken. When the confusion of the tongues came in, every word was broken different languages, but hallelujah is hallelujah in every language. You can go anywhere around the world and everybody says hallelujah. That means praise you the Lord. So that's one word we're going to say in heaven that is now like now. So praise God. Anyway, say with me, I love Jesus. I love Jesus because he first loved me. Because he first loved me. Come Lord Jesus now. Come Lord Jesus now. And make me free. Make me free. Amen. Amen. Amen. Hallelujah. I'm going to be talking about a a subject of numbers tonight. But before we start, I want to just share a little bit uh to the roots as to why I wrote this and what's going on. I don't know if you watched the news yesterday, but uh this uh Muslim holiday they had called Ramadan. I think it was Indonesia or one of those places where there's a lot of Muslims over there. These guys wanted to do a big something for their god. And so they went out and found themselves three Christian girls. And of course they beheaded them. And then they took their heads and they put a piece of paper said we need 97 more. They want to offer to their God, you know, an offering of mercy to their God. They wanted 97 more Christian that that they want to find out where there was 97 more Christians so they could go and cut their heads and and so this is the spirit that we're going against. You know, we think that because we live here on this comfort and and things uh people like us are dying all over the place. You know, we're living on on the end times. Anyway, the root of these messages was on uh October 18. That was last month. That night before the the seventh thing before I went to bed, I was doing research. I was looking for the awakenings. You know, the the Lord just put that word in my heart. So it comes out that in 1730 to about 1760 there was a great awakening taking place. It was in Europe, it was in Germany, it was in England. It came to the United States. And for about a generation, 30 40 years there was the greatest revival. That's when um uh uh different preachers were preaching and they were preaching about hell, fire, and brimstone. In other words, the judgment of God. Uh and so there was I mean by awakening means he had an impact. All of the colonies back then there was just people turning away from their sins and everything. And this ended at about 1760 right before the birth of our nation. So this nation was birthed out of a revival. When they declare independence in 1776, all of those people have lived through a whole generation of an awakening because I believe the United States of America has an has a destiny. God has a destiny for this nation. And the devil has tried so hard to steal or to destroy the destiny of this nation. You know in Europe only about 10% of the people over there go to church once a month less than 10%. And and that used to be a hot bed of Christianity. Most of the awakenings began over there and came to this place. Now the United States they had focused in the last 50 60 years the the devil behind the academia the liberals the thinkers and they have tried they done everything in the world they can to destroy the faith of the people. You know if you go to college you send your kids to college the very first thing the professor is going to do is going to find out where that young man or woman is at their faith and they they're they have a package that they will destroy their faith before you know the semester is over. This is their their angle. And so they have raised a generation expecting that the young people of this nation will be destroyed. That's why there's so much drug and stuff like that. But no matter what they do, even the kids as they get older, we turn to God. We keep turning to God. We keep turning to God. No matter what they do, we keep turning to God. And that's because there is a destiny on this nation. uh uh the the American uh uh uh children are born and embra in them there is a destiny. This nation has a destiny. A destiny with with God. Then the second awakening began I think in 18 1800s to the 1830s I think it was. And this was another a generation to where great changes came. And this was an American driven awakening. And so as I was um uh laying there, I woke up at three o'clock in the morning. The Lord woke me up. My mom was staying with us and she was downstairs. So I didn't want to go downstairs to pray because it might spook my mom, you know, she's just been there for a couple of days. And so I I I decided to stay in the bed as I'm laying there and I'm thinking about this and the Lord showed me there had been 17 decades or 170 years 1830 the 1830s it was when the last awakening that had a national impact. In other words the whole nation was moved by this revival by this awakening. So it had been like 17 decades or 170 years since we had a major awakening here. You know how many people have come and gone in those 170 years. And as I'm meditating on that, the number 17, uh 70 years, 17 decades, uh the Lord says to me, I mean, just as clear as bell, he said, "If you just listen carefully, he said, you can hear the stone that has been placed over the tomb of where my church has been buried for this 170 years." He says, "Right now, even as you're laying here, if you listen carefully, you'll hear the stone being rolled away out of the cave." And of course, the reference was to Lazarus. Lazarus was dead. He was dead for uh two days. They told Jesus, Jesus per purposely stay back two days. He wanted to make sure that when he got there, Lazarus has been dead for a long time. Okay? So, and Lazarus was buried in the cave and the Lord Jesus all of a sudden gave me this revelation. Lazarus represents my church. My church has been wrapped in the bonds of iniquity. See 17 is also the number of iniquity in in as you'll see on the lesson there are 17 works of the flesh listed in Galatians chapter 5 and in 2 Timothy chapter 3. So the church and you know isn't it amazing that just a few days after that this came out this pastor with a 14,000 member church that had iniquity in him that he had never dealt with and the devil was able to push it out. So anyway, the the revelation was the Lord showed me that the church was like Lazarus being in the grave and two days that Jesus purposely stayed back. Uh it it it represented this 2,000 years of this two days. And so Jesus came into the tomb. Mary and Martha were crying and and and he said, "Roll away the stone." And the Lord said, "Right now, October 18." It was in the morning. So it was already next day, October 18, the stone is being rolled back. And then he says in November, which in the Hebrew is the ninth month, nine is the fruit of the spirit. God spoke to me as soon as November begins or the the ninth month begin, you're going to hear me call out to my church and says, "Church, come forth." And then he gave me the picture that as the church is coming forth out of this grave which he has been bound behind these locked doors, the first thing that Jesus did, he told the people that were standing around him, he said, "Take off his grave clothes. Remove the veil that is over his face." So you see this this is a veil that's in the church today that they can't really see and these bones of iniquities wrap around. So anyway, I got so excited I called Fred and I told him uh uh the vision that the Lord had given me. So as soon as the new month began, the ninth month, Wednesday, November 1, we came over here and Vicki and Fred and I was sit right up in there and we began to just pray, praise, praise God, praise God. Lord, if you're calling us out, here we are, Lord. We want to hear, we want to hear you calling out. We want to hear you calling us out. And we began to prophesy right here in the middle of of of the church. We began to speak and we ended up with Psalm 149 where it says that God has given his church the double-edged sword to execute judgment upon the nations and upon the kings to bind them with feathers. And so we begin to do that. Hey, you know, the Lord gives me something. I know that he's being faithful. He's been preaching over here. And I said, we're going to begin right here now. So the message that I'm going to bring now is as as the Lord showed me that number 17, I began to look up everything that had to do with the number 17 because I've always uh uh felt the number 17 just have to do with the works of the flesh. But the Lord gave me a neat revelation and that's what I'm going to share with you tonight. Amen. So, uh, everybody has a handout and then we're going to begin with the meaning, the biblical meaning of number 17. And then I go, it's been about a 170 years or 17 decades since the last spiritual awakening took place in the United States of America. Now, the first thing to learn about the number 17 is the number 17 is a prime number. As you know, there's there are numbers that that are indivisible. That's what a prime number is. You cannot divide one. You cannot divide three. You cannot divide five. You cannot divide seven. You cannot divide 13. And you cannot divide 17. And there's more num more numbers that go on. But if you notice, I have in the list over there. These are all prime numbers. 1 3 5 7. The number 13 thing is what? The sixth prime number. And what is the number 13 means to you? If I say the number 13, everybody always thinks about bad when it comes to number 13. The number of the devil uh you know uh Friday the 13th, you know, in Cuba in Cuba is Tuesday the 13th. So somebody got screwed up someplace over there. But but you know the 13 is the point. Okay. 13. There were 13 people in the last supper. And you know what happened? Judas hung himself and they crucified Jesus. So the the number 13 is not good. And why is it? Because number six is a number of men. Six is a number of men. So the prime number the six prime number which is 13 multiplies or increases or it magnify the number of men. And that's why 13 has such a bad connotation to it. Well, if the number 13 because it is a sixp prime number has such a magnification of the meaning of of of of the number six, then what about number 17 since it is the seventh prime number. And as you know, seven is the number of spiritual perfection. Seven is a number of the church. Seven is the number of completion. You're in the seven, you're in good hands. Okay? The six fall short. Six is man. We fall short to the glory of God. But by the grace of God, when we accept his forgiveness, we come into seven. Seven is the the the millennial kingdom of Jesus Christ, the last day of his reign, the year uh the thousand years reign of Christ. So then um I explained the number 13 being the the sixth number. So in the same manner, number 17 being the seventh prime number, it also partakes of intensifies the significance of the number seven and its meanings throughout the scripture. First, the number 17 is a combination or the sum of two perfect numbers, seven and 10. So, in order for you to have 17, you got to have a seven and you have a 10. Now, seven is the number that speaks of spiritual perfection. That's why the church uh seven churches, this is why there are the seven spirits of God in Revelation chapter 4. Uh seven always uh was a day of rest. God created everything on six days and on the seven days he rested. So spiritual perfection is spoken of by the number seven. 10 speaks of ordinal perfection. The order, in other words, all of the numbers in the world, I don't care how many billions you can count to are a combination of 10 numbers. You have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, and 10, which is one and zero. And then all of these numbers complete everything else with those are the basic numbers which that's why it's called perfect order or ordinal perfection. For example, you can preach the gospel by the way with the numbers. One is God who created everything. How this guy created everything? He took out of himself breath and he breathed it into something. So he separated himself too. Now when God created Adam, he breathed into him. He made a lump of of clay and then he breathed into him. He became a living soul. Now how the atom multiply? God took out of Adam a ri separated. That's the same thing. What God did in the spirit into the physical, the physical dozen into the physical. That's what number two symbolizes. Separation for the purpose of bringing back together again. You look at Hebrews 4:12. The word of God I is lifegiving energy that is able to divide us under or separate between soul and spirit between joints and marrow between u uh uh uh attitudes and intents of the heart. The same word in in in Hebrews 2:4 speaks about the gift of the Holy Spirit. So God every time he take takes you into a place of separation he cleans you out and he puts you back together and you give forth fruit. You give birth to something. Every time God separates you or cuts you aunder or brings you into separation, that is a principle that is spoken in the numbers. God separates and then when they come together, what happened when Adam and Eve uh came together? They brought fruit which is a number three. Three always speaks of fruit uh uh uh uh the unity of God, the unity of men. Four speaks of God put this new thing that he created on a physical environment. That's why you have the four corners, the four winds, uh the four directions of the compass. Four always speaks of the physical creation. In other words, God who is spirit and is unlimited breathe into something that he created out of the physical. Then that physical became a living soul. Then out of him he took a woman, separated the two. Then he brought them together. Then they brought him fruit. And then he put that fruit in the garden. Number four. And so God. So then five, the number five means the breath of God. The word of God Isaiah says that the word, my word, God says does not return to me void. I send it forth and like the snow that falls in the mountain comes back and brings it accomplishes the purpose for which I send it. Well, this physical creation is sustained by the words of God, by the breath of God, by the blessings of God. Uh I think Paul puts it in one of the the letters to where in him Jesus we live and move and have our existence. Why? Because he's the bread that sustain even today everything is following the breath or the command of God. God said let there be evening and morning. Let this be uh be fruitful and multiply. Everything that God spoke is still doing what God said to do. That's what five symbolizes. And then the number six symbolizes that God put a time limit. That's why six is a number of men because six is a number of time. We're limited by time. See, we're not going to live in this dimension forever. After the thousand years, we're going to be here on the earth. God is going to remurnish the earth and we're going to be with him for a thousand years here. But there's still going to be sun and moon and day and night. We will have new bodies. we won't have to eat, but there's still people that God will be dealing with here in the earth that will will uh will still have to be saved. Those are the ones that are going to be born after the tribulation. But at the end of the thousand years, God is going to melt all of the elements. Peter says all of the elements of God are going to be melted and a new earth is going to be made. And this new earth, there's not going to be no ocean. There's not going to be no sun, no moon. That's eternity forever. That's when we go into a different eternity uh with God. So six always speaks of the limitation. We are limited. Our in other words, we're not going to go forever like this. It began there's a first generation and there's a last generation. Jesus says this generation shall not pass away in in Matthew 24 until all of the things be fulfilled. So there's there was a first generation with Adam and Eve. There's a generation that's going to end. And I believe we're living in that generation. And we're the 144th generation. That's why there's 144 seal in in Revelation chapter 7 because each each uh 12,000 that are sealed comes up to 144 symbolizing this is the generation that I marked before entering into the day of rest. Now seven is when we go into the kingdom age and that's when we're going to the age of rest just like it was during before uh before the Noah's flood. God is going to rechange the earth that Isaiah tells us that in the kingdom age people that died a hundred years old will be like a mere infant dying. There's going to be people's going to live a thousand years. This is human, not us. We will have our new glorified bodies. This is the people that going to be living because there's a few people that are going to survive the great tribulation and the Jews which uh are hidden in the caves and then they'll come out. They will they'll repopulate the earth. And the reason why I think the Lord did that because Satan is going to be bound for a thousand years and at the end of the thousand years he's let loose. The way that I can phantom that is that God has like a trial going on for this last 6,000 years. Everything is challenged like we're in a court. Let's say that I'm there on the court and there's Satan who is the prosecutor and here's Jesus who's my defense attorney. And here's God who is the judge of the earth and who has to abide by the law by his word. And Satan comes in and he accuses me continuously and says, "God, Marcos deserves to die." Okay? And then Jesus on the other side says, "Don't listen to that bomb over there. I've already paid for all of his sin and he has accepted me and he's got you covered." Right? So during this 6,000 years, that's what's been going on. You can see it in Job when when Satan goes before God and says, "What is he up to?" And and you can see God gives us a peak into what's going on into the spiritual. Well, at the end of the thousand years, it's like when you come to the trial, the end of the trial, all of the evidence is presented and now comes the closing arguments. Did you know that you cannot challenge a closing argument? When it comes time for the defense attorney to get up in there, he can speak all he wants to. The other guy have to shut up. He can't say nothing. You are going to have a closing. This a thousand years is God's closing argument where God says this is what the earth would have been b like if Satan would not would not have been around because he's going to be bound for a thousand years and there's not going to be no crime. There's not going to be no pain. There's not going to be no sorrow. There's not going to be no death. The lion is going to lay down with the lamb and the kids are going to play with snakes and the snakes are not going to bite him. There's not going to be no poison. Why? because Satan is a poison. And so at the end of the thousand years, God already has enough to convict him and all of his angels. Then they get loose and then that's when God deals with him finally. Okay? So that's what number seven. Now number eight is the number of new beginnings. In other words, the present reality is done away with. Now number eight can be good and can be bad because a new beginning depends on what you're beginning. If you're sitting for 40 years in jail and you begin that first day, that's a new beginning. But that's not a very new, very good beginning. Okay? Those people that are going to hell at the end of that seven when God judges them, they begin their eighth day in hell, that's not a good beginning. So, it's a new beginning, but it could be good, it could be bad. But for us, it's good because a new beginning leads us into the nine. Nine is the completion of the fruit, the completion of the harvest. when we come in into that uh that place that we come to. Now 10 then becomes a combination of God who is one and us where are the zeros and you see a zero for us has no value. But in the Hebrew the the the nothing has a great deal of value. They they think as a zero of something very valuable in the mindset not in in in the way that we think that that zero means nothing. You see uh if God is one right and I'm a zero and I come and I bow down to God and I said Lord you are my God and you're my savior what what did I just do? What happen when you add a zero to a one becomes a 10. I just magnify God. See the Bible said to magnify God means add value to him or increase. God is a farmer. God is a businessman. God is in the business of of increase. He's on the business of magnifying himself. That's what he did. He blew into into Adam. Adam. And now there were two. Then he took out of Adam. Now there were two. Then they came together. Now there were three. There were four. There were five. See, when I got saved, I added a zero to God. And then my wife got saved too. So we added two zeros to God. So God went from one to 10 to 100. Then we gave our kids to the Lord. Now we were 10,000. Now our kids are are married and have kids. And so look at just on us. Now during the day of Pentecost, there were 120 zeros in the upper room. And then all of a sudden the Holy Spirit came aligned them. And look what that 120 I mean out to the one 120 zeros. And how big is that? That's why God was able to change the whole world because that's God is in the business of multiplication. Now I believe without a doubt a shadow of a doubt in my heart because God moves through times and through doors and he has bound himself by precepts that he has decreed. And see, we're limited to our 70 years span, but God works through generations. And what I want to show you here tonight is that we're living right now and the door. We have come to our 17. We have come to our completion. Okay. Now, let's let's go through the scriptures here. First I want you to see that when you put the meaning of the spiritual of seven which means spiritual perfection and the meaning of the 10 which means ordinal perfection then what we have is perfection or the completion of spiritual order right before the scripture of Galatian the 10 and the seven means if you were to to take their meanings mean the perfection of spiritual order or the completion or spiritual order. In other words, God has an order set up and until that order is not completed, he's not going to move. You see, that's what it means there. Just like you have 17 works in the flesh in Galatians and 17 works in the flesh, you cannot be delivered until you go through all 17 of them. When you go through all 17 of them, you completed the cleanup. You you 17 meaning you got them all out. If you go into your tank and and you got five, you got seven, you got 10, you're still not done. You need to get through all of them. 17. That's what 17 mean. When the spirit cycle comes to completion. Now, let's go to the Bible and see this through the Bible. In Genesis 37:2, it says that Joseph being 17 years old. Now, Joseph just had a dream. God tells Joseph, "You are going to rule." The one of the dreams was that uh he saw the moon and the sun and and and and the 12 stars bowing to his feet. And immediately they all knew Jacob was a dream interpreter. He knew exactly what it meant. You know what it meant? It means that Jacob and his wife and and his 11 brothers were going to be bowing down to Joseph. And boy, they didn't like it. Joseph was a little snotty kid. you know, the the favor of his dad because he was born on his dad's old age. His dad made him a coat of many colors and everywhere Joseph went, he was saying to the rest of the kids, I'm better than you. I'm better than you. I'm better than you. So, he was 17 years old when that dream came and before his next birthday, he was sold to Egypt as a slave. And they told his dad that a wild animal had eaten him up and they brought him the coat of many colors with plot on it. Now I want you to see the closing of the cycle. The next scripture is Genesis 47:28. And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt 17 years. See how the number how God puts number to bring us up in there. Joseph was 17 years old when he was taken to Egypt. He through many trials and tribulation eventually became the number two man in Egypt for Pharaoh. There was a famine on the land. And guess what? all of the world that time was saved because Joseph interpreted the dream while he was in jail. By the way, falsely accused. He was falsely accused of rape. A woman that wanted to have sex with him and he wouldn't have it. And uh and so she falsely accused him. He's in jail. He gets a dream and and and uh and Pharaoh has a dream. They find out that Joseph can interpret it. He says that means you're going to have seven years of prosperity. Seven number of completion. remember spiritual completion and sever seven years of famine. So he tell Pharaoh what God is saying is you better save as much grain as you can because of seven years nothing's going to grow. So God says okay I'll put you in charge. So he goes up in there he buys every grain in the world that they can. Seven years later they have barns so full of stuff that all the world is dying because there's a famine. It's not raining anywhere but Egypt has grain. And so what happens? Uh uh Joseph's brothers had to go to Egypt to buy grain. They don't recognize him and winds up to where they all had to bow down to him because he's a number two guy. I mean, he's got all the power in Egypt except for Pharaoh. And Pharaoh is too busy bathing on the river and having his thing. He's running the business. And so the dream is fulfilled. And now we're told that when this began, Joseph was 17 years old. Why? 17 is the completion of a spiritual order. And when Joseph is about to die, he calls uh I mean Jacob is about to die. He says, "Son, swear to me that you will not bury me on this place. Bury me where Abraham and and my mom are buried." And he says, "Yeah." And he says that he was 17 years old. Why? Because it's a closing of a cycle. Now, it still took another 400 years before they came out of Egypt. But I want you to see here that God puts an emphasis on the number 17 because 17 means the beginning and the ending of a spiritual cycle. And every time, see, you have a combination. If I have a lock and a combination, you have three or four keys there. And you have to turn this on this way. In the inside, there's a mechanism that opens. Then you got to go the other way. You got to find the number. You got to bring it there. Now you got two that are line up. Then you go back, turn the other one. Now you got three that all line up. And when all four or five or whatever combinations is in that lock are all line up, you can turn the handle and it opens. That's how the spirit realm work. You can have one cycle, but it's not all of them have to be lined up. When you have a number 17 in the Bible, it's telling you, I got it all lined up. Just turn the handle and open. I got it open. That's what it means. And that's why God said that Joseph was 17 when this began and Jacob was 17 years when he died. It'll be 17 years in Egypt. So when there is a completion manifested by the number 17, that means that God is restoring order. That's why I believe that after 170 years of God bringing a great awakening to this nation. It's time for God to restore order. Don't you think God needs to restore order on this nation? And don't you think it's begun right now? I mean look how much sin has been exposed from politicians and from church and this is nothing. This is just the beginning of what's coming up. So now here's another cycle. The city of Jerusalem is about to fall to the invading armies and God tells Jeremiah the prophet to buy a field for 17 shekels of silver and to bury the deed in the ground as a witness that when the cycle is completed, they will return to the land. Now this is funny. When I was reading this, this is funny. And the Jews um uh inherit the land. You know, depending to what tribe you were, you were given a land. The land was divided, subdivided, and subdivided. So, if you're from certain tribe, this is your lot. And by law, it's yours for eternity. It will always be your family line. That's why Ahab uh and Jezebel kid killed the guy because he wanted his palace was next door to neighbor's vineyard and and he said I can't sell you this. This is my this is for my entire eternity. I can't give this up. See, you could sold it but only for 50 years. When the year of Jubilee was gone, they had to give you the land back. So Jeremiah is in prison in the palace. The city of Jerusalem is surrounded by the Nebuchaness army. And God says to Jeremiah, you know, your cousin, that cheater uncle that you have, you know, he's his his son, okay? He's going to try to hustle you. He's going to come in and he's going to try to sell you the land because it's part of your inheritance. He going to try to sell it to you because he knows that the Babylonians are going to take over everything. So, he wants some money for it. He said, "Buy it from him." And Jeremiah says to God, "Are you crazy, God? I mean, you just I've been I'm in jail because I've been prophesying that you're kicking us out of the land and that you're wiping us out because of our sin and you want me to buy the land." That's just like God revealing to you there's going to be a huge earthquake and it's going to destroy this. And God says, "Buy it." Let's read the scripture. I mean, this is funny. It says Jeremiah 32:9-11 says, "So I bought the field from Hanel, the son of my uncle who was in Anapos, and I waited out to him the money, 17 shekels of s silver, and I signed the deed and I sealed it. He took witnesses and I waited the money on the scales." In other words, he went and bought it. Now once Jeremiah invests this money, it's just like somebody trying to sell you Frontline Ocean property in Arizona, you know, or or the Brooklyn Bridge, something like that. This is what the deal was like. God says he's going to hustle you, but I want you to buy this land even though the Babylonians are going to take it over. And then look what God told Jeremiah to do once he got the deal in Jeremiah 32:14-15. He said, "Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, take these deeds, both this purchase which is sealed, and this deed which is open, and put them in an earththing vessel, that they may last many days. For thus sayeth the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again on this land." You know what God was saying? He's saying, Jeremiah, I want you to take the deed. See, what they did is they had a sealed deed. That's when they roll it in a scroll and they put a stamp on it and they have one open so people could see what was on the one that was sealed up in there. He says, "I want you to take a jar back in those clay pots where the uh uh uh kuman uh caves they had where where the uh those scrolls were found." Anyway, he says, "I want you to put them in front of everybody. I want you to dig up a hole and I want you to bury it in the land because thus says the Lord God of hosts one day you people I mean we're talking about Nebuchadnezzar an army that's destroyed and conquered everybody all nations that that fall under they get scattered they're they lose their heritage they lose everything but God says I swear right now in front of everybody that I'm beginning a cycle see what God had to do the Jews were were told to give the land a rest every seventh year. It's called a sabbatical. You were you could not work on the seventh year. I'd like to have that. I'd like to have a whole year off every six years. That would be great. You know that that would be nice, wouldn't it? I mean, that would be a great vacation, a whole year of vacation. But, but anyway, they were supposed to do that. And so, they didn't do it for a whole bunch of time. 490 years. So what God did is in 490 years there are 70 years of Sabbath. So God says I'm taking you guys out of the land and I'm giving my land 70 years of rest. That's one of the things that Jeremiah prophesied. But God says I want you to pay 17 shekels of silver for this land. I want you to put on a deed that says 17. Why? Because 17 speaks of a cycle. And God sa Previous Next Home

YOU ARE GODS CHOICE OF WEAPON To empower believers with the understanding that they are God’s chosen instruments of spiritual warfare, prepared vessels equipped by the Word and Spirit to break strongholds, overcome battles, and walk in righteousness and victory through Christ. YOU ARE GODS CHOICE OF WEAPON Minister Lisa Kane November 25, 2023 Objective: To empower believers with the understanding that they are God’s chosen instruments of spiritual warfare, prepared vessels equipped by the Word and Spirit to break strongholds, overcome battles, and walk in righteousness and victory through Christ. Synopsis: In this powerful message, Minister Lisa Kane teaches from Jeremiah 51:20 that God calls His people His “battle axe and weapons of war.” Believers are not passive bystanders but chosen vessels, prepared and empowered to confront spiritual opposition. Just as Israel was called to be God’s weapon, Christians today—grafted into the family of God through Christ—are equipped to demolish strongholds, resist the enemy, and reclaim what has been stolen. Drawing parallels to a lioness training her cubs, Lisa explains how God carefully prepares His children for battle, teaching them step by step to overcome sickness, fear, financial struggles, and spiritual bondage. Through prayer, the Word, and obedience, Christians become sharpened weapons in God’s hands. Referencing Romans 9 and 2 Corinthians 10, she emphasizes that God shapes His vessels for honor, preparing them in advance for spiritual campaigns. Victory is not through fleshly might but by the Spirit, through the spoken Word, prayer, and steadfast obedience. Believers are called to cast down imaginations, break demonic strongholds, and stand as defenders of truth, bringing deliverance and healing to others. The message closes with an urgent call for believers to take their rightful place as God’s weapons of warfare—dwelling in the secret place, hearing His voice, praying persistently, and advancing His Kingdom with boldness and authority in the name of Jesus. Inspired Teaching: Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kaine. I'm recording this on Saturday, November 25th, 2023. Welcome. This message is called You Are God's Choice of Weapon. I'm excited about this message, folks. Let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for the anointing of your word. We thank you for the presence of your spirit upon our ears and minds to see, hear, receive, and believe the living word of God. We thank you for your word and we ask that we apply it to our lives. Live it the way you're asking us to live it, Father God. That we are walking in godliness and righteousness with you in a deep, passionate relationship. Thank you, Father God, for you are awesome. You are God. You are my God, my King, my Lord, and my Savior. I belong to you. You belong to me. Thank you, Father God. In the glorious name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. And amen. All right, let's go to our opening scripture here. This is called, "You are God's choice of weapon." We're opening up with Jeremiah 51:20. Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war. For with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee I will destroy kingdoms. You guys, this is an awesome powerful scripture in the living word of God. Now, let's put some context behind it here so that you can understand what God is doing here. So, we the nation of Israel is at a point in in its life where it's going to go into captivity and it has done so here. Uh we are at the end of Jeremiah. This is Jeremiah 51. So, at the end of Jeremiah here, they are in captivity and they will be in captivity for 70 years. Now, um you can go in and read the whole thing about Israel and what they've done to get into captivity. You've got good kings, evil kings, goes up and down and and here we are at this point where they're now in captivity and basically they're being destroyed. Um they're being killed. But God is prophesying through Jeremiah here that you're going to be a weapon of war. Now, I want you to understand something here. The scripture just doesn't apply to Israel back then. Keep in mind that when we become a believer in Christ, we are brought into the nation of Israel. We are grafted in. We are adopted in because Jesus is Israel. He's um an heir through the line of the king of David. So because that he's Israeli, he's a Hebrew, we are adopted into that and that is what we are. So this applies to us and this is very spiritual scripture because I want you to see something. It says, "Thou art my battle axe." Now that word axe there means war club and weapons. Look at this. Something prepared, a vessel that is prepared. We're going to look into scripture here talking about different vessels and what the Lord does with these vessels. But a prepared vessel is the choice of God to use as a weapon against other nations, against strongholds, against captivities. You know, I have been teaching in deliverance here this entire time about prayer and using your words to break through things. You're going to see that happen here with this. And you're going to see the Lord move in this. He says, "For with thee." So in other words, God in Israel, God in me, will I break in pieces or dash or scatter the nations and with thee, God in me, will I destroy, decay, put into ruin, batter, cast off, perish kingdoms, which is dominion, or the country. So these kingdoms and dominions that we have all around of us, we're going to battle those with God because God chooses us as his weapon. This is absolutely incredible. So I want you to understand the concept of what I'm going to be teaching here as I get into the next set of scriptures. But I want to give you uh uh something to look at uh that will help you understand this because we see it in nature surprisingly. So this this is already here. This is a principle that God has placed out here in the world for you and I to walk in and know and live by. Amen. So here, take a look at it. Think of a lioness and her cubs. What does a lionist do with her cubs? She teaches them how to find their food, how to take care of themselves, and they have to fight some big giant animals to get whatever it is that they're going to get. And you know, it's interesting how she does it. She starts them off young. Now, she'll bring them their food. you know, as they get a little older, she brings it or she'll start to maim an animal, say a deer, partially ma it, and then teach her cubs how to fully destroy it and kill it. And then they're satisfied with food. And then as they get older, then she will stand off a little further away, watch her cubs go into action, and take the ash. This is God doing this with us, his believer, the people he has prepared in advance. You and I are walking in righteousness. And if you've been watching my videos, we're walking in righteousness and godliness because we choose to put God first because we dwell in the secret place with the Lord. So, he's taking us from here because we purposed in our mind to have that relationship with God. But he's taking us from here and he's going to bring us up here now because he's trying to show us how to go to war and how to be victorious in every battle. We've already won the war, but now we're dealing with battles that we face every day. There are battles of cancer or some sort of sickness and disease. There are battles of financial uh issues where you have no money. There's battles where you're in bondage with a spirit of fear or anxiety or anything of that nature. Well, God has purposed in his heart to teach you how to deal with that. So, he's going to choose you how to deal with it. He's going to walk you through that. And you're going to be able to walk through it. And it's going to be absolutely incredible because you are going to have a release, a victorious release in the name of Jesus. and you're going to take back what the devil's taking. You know, if you go to the end of Revelation, I can look up the scripture. I didn't bring it here, but I'm just recalling off the top of my mind. But when we're there in the kingdom and the judgment's taking place, a lower ranking angel brings over chains to put on the devil to bind them up for a thousand years. Well, that John actually records in Revelation the reaction of the people, you and me. Our reaction is that little puny thing gave me all this hardship. Let me also bring to mind uh something that's going to help you understand this. So, as a lioness is teaching her cubs how to fight, what is it? She's right there with them. She's nudging them, pushing them along, showing them how to take down the animal, how to be victorious in the kill. Well, God is right here with us. He's nudging us. He's showing us how to pray. He's telling you, "Nothing's going to hurt you. I got you. You're protected. I just want you to go and take down the enemy." You see, you're his chosen weapon. Well, in order to become that chosen weapon, you need to be walking in a right standing with God because one, you need to be able to hear him. You need to be able to know it's his voice. You need to be able to know the word of God in order to do this because you need to know what scriptures to apply. So, what does that mean? You dwell in the secret place. You open the word of the God, the word of the living God, and you begin to know it, know him. And every time you're praying, you're sharing the scriptures there and taking down strongholds. So let's go to Romans. I want you to see this now in action. Romans 9 19-26. You see Paul realized what was going on, how God was doing this. And and you know, just to add one more element to this. So here's God up here. Satan has no chance against God. If you go again, read the end of that revelation, you will find when Jesus comes down on his white horse and we're following him, there's actually no battle. It's just all of a sudden, like in the next scripture, you see them all bound up. The beast and the prophet are bound up. They don't have a chance at all. So that, you know, it isn't a God versus Satan kind of scenario here. And I taught on this a few years ago. You can go look it up on the website, houseof faithministries.org, but you know, it's now Satan versus us. It's just the two of us battling. So, the question I have for you is, do you want to let Satan rule your life or do you want to live in victory in the flesh while we're here waiting for our eternity? I hope you make the right choice. Okay? I hope you make the right choice. Let's go to Romans nine. We're going to start in verses 19. We're going to read verses 19 through 26. Let's start in verse 19. Thou wilt say thee then unto me, why do he yet find fault? For who hath resisted or stand against his will? Nay, but oh man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, why hast thou made me thus? Why hast thou made me thus? to be a weapon to bring down strongholds and to be serving God in righteousness and godliness, which we can do. We don't have to live by the flesh. You're going to see that here more. But I want you to see some key words here. Resisted. You're you're standing against the will of God. When you're not doing the things he asks you to do, when you're not spending time with him in the secret place, you are another word for it is rebel. You're rejecting God. You're finding fault with his principles with what he does because it's why why does he do this? Why do uh bad things happen? Hey, you know, you need to get into the word of God. One, you will find your answer. Two, you will also know that God is in control. And because he's in control, you have to line yourself up with him so that he can nudge you, push you gently in the right direction of what to pray for, what to bring down, and be the effective weapon he called you to be. Amen. Verse 21. hath not the potter uh power privilege over the clay of the same lump to make one vessel unto honor value and another unto dishonor, disgrace, infamy. You know what Paul is saying here is God has made vessels for good and he has made vessels for evil. And I believe that every vessel has the opportunity to choose to be good and have the opportunity to repent and call on the name of Jesus. Now, if he didn't make it fully for um evil and they continued to reject, God hardened Pharaoh's heart and kept hardening his heart all the way through. He says, "I gave up Egypt for you, Israel." This is what he says. Things, see, God has a purpose and a plan that is to the benefit of Israel, that is to the benefit of his righteous people. You see, he will give up things for you because he loves you. So much so that he gave up his only begotten son for you. Jesus redeemed us and then Jesus rose from the grave and now he is more victorious than ever. And so we have him to follow as an example which what did he do when he walked out? He healed the sick. He delivered people. He cast out demons. He brought down strongholds. He resisted the devil in the wilderness for 40 days. I'm telling you, the things that Jesus did, and I just taught it in last week's message, we will do and do greater. We're taking down strongholds. We're delivering people from bondage and captivity. And we are setting free those captives. And we are healing the sick, which means we need to be in right standing with God, hearing the word so we know what to do, when to say, how to say it. Amen. Amen. Verse 22. What if God willing to show his wrath and to make his power known declare himself powerful or capable endured with much long suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction? So let's read this uh without the parentheses and the extra words. What if God willing to show his wrath to make his power known endured with much long suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction? See what Paul is saying is he made these things for destruction. so his power can be known. He did it. He's in control of all this. That's the answer to the big giant. Why? He decided he goes, "I want to make my power known. I want to declare myself powerful and capable that I'm able to protect you, keep you safe, but I want to use you as it." You see, God has his way. We should not ever limit God in how he wants to do something or how he wants to accomplish a goal. It's amazing. You know, you I I remember using it as a personal testimony. I was dealing with diabetes back in the day, and I remember saying, "Why, God, are you not making my meter match what the doctor's numbers were?" Because that's what I was limiting my prayer to with God. And he he said, "Who's your doctor? Me or that doctor?" And I it was a big eye opener. And I'm healed and delivered of all that today because I'm not under what these doctors are telling me because I don't believe half of what they say. And I really truly believe that, you know, if if I'm a Rolls-Royce that God has created, then I should go back to my creator and not go to Jify Lube for maintenance. Okay? I'm sorry, but these doctors, you know, I know they mean well, but they are under an influencer of the spirit of evil and they don't even realize that they're under witchcraft. What? What? Every time you take a drug, it only deals with the symptom. It doesn't deal with the root. So, you just keep it's perpetual. You just spending your money. all your money's coming out of your pockets into all of these drugs just for relief of a symptom when all you got to do is go to God and say, "You know what, Lord? I'm giving this to you and I cast it to you. I'm going to be free." I'm telling you, he will give you the the right tools, the right scriptures to say that's going to deliver you from those sicknesses and diseases that you face. So, look at verse 23. And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy which he had of prepared. Notice that. I want you to see this. He had a for prepared. And that word prepared there, by the way, is to fit up in advance. When you go dwell in the secret place with the Lord and you start spending time in the scripture, you're reading it, you're speaking it, you start praying it, and the Holy Spirit starts to teach you how to pray. He is preparing you in advance. You are the vessel being prepared for his tool, his weapon. Amen. This is him preparing. You need to be prepared. Every soldier that goes into war goes into war prepared physically, spiritually. A lot of them tend to pray to whatever god that they're going to pray, but they tend to prepare for that. They get all their weapons, all of the um bullets they need, the swords they need, whatever it is that they need out there, they prepare. They even put in their their uh backpacks and what have you. All the the little foods and snacks and stuff that they need to sustain themselves in a war, the food and they've got to have their weapons. And this is why militaries provide all this for their people. This is why they need their convoys coming in behind the scenes preparing. But this is what God does to the body of Christ. He's preparing us, getting us ready, getting all of our weapons ready, which is the spoken word of God. is one of the weapons and to know it is to get in it and re receive it, believe it. Say it in your prayers. Amen. Amen. Verse 24, even as whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles. You see, he's also saying, listen, I'm the one who's teaching to the Gentiles. You can read that in other scriptures because that's the calling that God placed on his heart. So he's saying it's not the Jews, just the Israelites as Jeremiah was referring to, but he's saying it's for the Gentiles, too. You have the right to pray this way and live this way. You have the the you're the vessel that you could be evil or you could be good, but you have the choice to repent. Everybody has a choice to repent. It says anyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. And that word any man, anyone means anyone. If you are a vessel of evil, that God has made you as a vessel of evil, you can repent too. This is powerful. Look at verse 25. As he saith also in O, which is Hosea, I will call them my beloved people, which were not my people, and her beloved, which was not my beloved. Again, that's talking about you and I today. We were not the chosen ones. Israel was. We're the ones being grafted in because we choose God, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, which is the God over Israel. So, we choose the difference between Israel and us is that we become the body of Christ because we believe that Jesus, the Messiah, is the first. He He's the only Messiah, but he's the one. He's already came one time. He's coming back. Israel rejects that. That's a difference between the two of us. But we believe that Jesus is the son of the living God. And it shall come to pass that in the place where it was said unto them, "Ye are not my people, there shall they be called the children of the living God." This is you and I. This is what we're called to do. Let's go look at what Paul is referencing here. Hosea 2:23. And I will seow her unto me in the earth. This is God talking. And I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy. And I will say to them which were not my people, thou art my people, and they shall say, Thou art my God. If you take a look at my opening prayer, you are my God, my King, my Lord, and my Savior. I belong to you. You belong to me. I was saying that in prayer because I was directed by the Holy Spirit to do that before I even knew this verse existed. Amen. But look at what he says here. will sew as plant, bear, conceive seed. We're going to manifest the fruits and the gifts of the Holy Spirit. We're going to know exactly what to say, when to say, how to say it, and where to say it in the name of Jesus. He's also referring uh Paul is to Hosea 1:10 where he says, "Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered. And it shall come to pass that in the place where it was said unto them, "Ye are not my people." There it shall be said unto them, "Ye are the sons of the living God." And look what that word sons mean. As a builder of the family name, I want you guys to catch this. This is incredible. See, there's Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. You got David, Solomon. You got Noah, Moses. You have all of the prophets. You have all of the apostles, disciples. You have Paul. These are men and women of God in the living word of God that were written in history because the the Bible is historic. These are real people who lived. And you and I are part of that lineage. And we get to walk in the powers that they walked in in the name of Jesus. Amen. This is the anointing and the call that we have. This is how we go and pray because he's teaching us how to bring down those strongholds. God is so good. God is so good. And yes, I do speak in tongues. So anyways, tonesues are for men and of angels. When you're speaking in tonesues, you are also speaking to the angels around you. Okay, that's for another teaching of another time. Let's go back to Romans 9. Let's look at verse 27. Isaias, which is Isaiah, also crith concerning Israel, though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved, for he will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness. Because a short work with the will the Lord make upon the earth. That word righteousness is equity, justification. But he's going to finish the work and cut it in short. Cut it short in righteousness. So in order for us to be the effective tool that God has called us to be in the secret place is in righteousness, which means you need a purpose in your heart what you're going to do, what how you're going to do it. You know, um, think of it as the medical industry. You got a purpose in your heart. I'm not going to take those pills because I do not want witchcraft in my life. Or I purpose in my heart that I'm going to pray for my loved ones because I want them saved. I'm going to purpose in my heart I'm going to pray for Israel. And you do it. By the way, you do these things. You take these actions. And what does this mean? It means that you're separating time aside of your life for God to be that weapon because you need to be that weapon. We're taking back. You see, we're part of the body of Christ, and we get to take back what was stolen from us. I want you to hear this, and I want you to understand something. The devil has stolen too much already. He has stolen loved ones who have died prematurely from some wicked disease that they got because we didn't know how to go in the back room in our secret place and pray and ask God to forgive them and ask God to heal them. That we weren't doing that. That's on us. Do you really want that to continue on? God has directed us to pray for Israel and Jerusalem for peace. Are we doing that? Some are, some aren't. Some are walking in that biblical righteousness, but some are not. We need more people in the secret place with the Lord doing battle against the strongholds. How do you bring down a stronghold? You make a new stronghold that's stronger than the other one. And a stronghold is defense perimeter around like a castle or a moat, a moat around the castle, walls that are thick. You place the name of Jesus around something. You place it over that person. You name the name of Jesus over cancer, over your finances. You are placing a hedge of protection around those items. That is how God works. that keeps the enemy at bay. You have the right to bind and loose things. You were given the keys of the kingdom of heaven. You have already been given that. I've already taught on that. I'm not going to go back into details for that, but I want you to understand you've been given it. So, the choice is, are you going to continue walking in your flesh distracted and busy with the stuff of the world, or you going to walk in the world? Let's go read first Corinth or excuse me 2 Corinthians 10 3-6. For though we walk to live in the flesh, we do not war. Look at this word war. To serve in the military campaign after the flesh. We are not to be in the military campaign of our flesh and blood. No. Why? Because this is going to fail. This is going to die. Every man is appointed to die once. Hebrews 9:27, well then if my flesh is going to die and go away, then I better be investing in my spirit. So Paul is telling us clearly. Then he goes to verse four here. For the weapons of our warfare, look at the warfare apostolic career. Do you think that's what I've been talking about with casting out demons and laying hands on the sick and and having people healed? Calling out the name of the Jesus name of Jesus, the son of God in the secret place. Because see, when you're doing it in secret, God will manifest it out in the open in the name of Jesus. This is how he works. So, he's doing it behind the scenes. You need to be behind the scenes, praying it, saying it, speaking out so that the strong angels move and do what they're supposed to do because you're speaking to them because you're a tool from God. And the Holy Spirit's going to give you the right words to say on the right thing he has you praying for. For the weapons of our warfare are not not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down or the demolition of strongholds. You see, the demons have set up their own strongholds and they've put their claws in deep into people. They put curses there. They put these walls up. You've got to be able to break those walls. And you've got several ways to do it. You can march around the wall as the Israelites did uh to bring down the walls of Jericho. You can march around the walls and then do a shout. And you can do it right here in the secret place. One day in a circle, do it for six days. And on the seventh day, march around it seven day. And you can put something in the middle of your circle that represents what it is that you're trying to bring down. And you get to say to that thing, be down and do that powerful shout on day seven after you go around it seven times. You have the right to do that. You see, we were shown already warfare and how the Israelites did it. Now we get to do it in principle through our spoken word in the secret place under the anointing of the Holy Spirit because this our to serve our military campaign. We serve our military campaign in spirit. Remember Jesus said it's not or God said it's not by might nor by power but by my spirit says the Lord. And that is what we get to walk in. Oh hallelujah. So we are to pull down these strongholds in the name of Jesus and casting down imaginations. This is how we do it for ourselves and every high thing that exalted itself against the knowledge of God, bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. You see, when you purpose in your heart the secret place of the Lord and you choose to learn his word and you choose to go into battle because you want a loved one saved and and you just You just start and you don't even know what to say. You just simply start it. Lord, I want so- and so saved. I'm calling him back in the name of Jesus. And you just start speaking it over and over and over again. And you are persistent. You keep doing it every single day. I promise you that loved one will get saved. Imagine if the whole body of Christ did that. Oh my goodness. The devil would have a very difficult time succeeding in anything. Anything. He will not prevail because we're purposing in our hearts the name of Jesus through the spoken word of God in this secret place over whatever situation we're facing and dealing with. So, and it takes you know in our minds we have to take self-control here. This is a gift of the Holy Spirit casting down imaginations. You know, there are things that we see. We see someone taking action and we'll think in our mind or roll the eyes or whatever it is. Oh man, he missed that. And then we'll run it through our minds what's going to happen. Well, Paul is saying, you need to cast that down because with God, it can change. You see, we have grace. We're in the period of grace right now. It doesn't matter what bad thing you did. If you killed someone, you can be forgiven. The only time you cannot be forgiven is if you kept blaspheming the Holy Spirit, resisting him, resisting, and then you died. That's it. You got to make your choice here in the living. And look at this. You have to know the science of God. This is, you see, and it takes faith and a belief to know the living word of God. I mean, how much corruption of evolution and our scientific community has put in our hearts to knock down our belief and faith in the living word of God. And let me tell you, I'm praying for the scientific community to be saved. You want to know how I'm doing it? I simply go to the Lord and I say, "Lord, I lift up the scientific community to your throne room and I forgive them of their sins and I forgive them of the iniquities found with them within them. I ask you, heavenly father, to forgive them as well in the name of Jesus, the son of God, because he says in Matthew 6:14, if you forgive them of their trespasses, I will forgive them of their trespasses." And because we're now in unity, in agreement, hey demons, you let go of the scientific community in the name of Jesus, the son of the living God. I bind you with feathers of iron to the iron below my feet, preventing you from interfering in the scientific community anymore. Father God, I bless the scientific community with restoration that what was taken from them and the deceits that they've been spewing for the last several hundred years. Well, Lord, we're going to take back and reverse those results and pray for the fruit and the gift of the Holy Spirit of truth and fact to manifest out of the scientific community. I thank you, heavenly father, for letting the spirit of God move forward, letting your strong angels go forward, that the truth and the facts are spoken through the scientific community in the name of Jesus, the son of the living God. Amen and amen. That is an example prayer right there that you can pray for the education system, you can pray over the presidency, all of his cabinet, you can pray for Israel, you can pray for Hamas that way. I was praying for Hamas and I didn't want to. And I prayed in obedience. And yet 200 men, over 200 Hamas men saw or had the same dream of a man that they had to go find a missionary for interpretation of. And come to find out they were seeing Jesus. All of them saw Jesus and they all repented and became believers in Christ. This is how this works. You're obedient. You don't want to pray for you're tired. You You've been busy. You don't want to get it. You have to cast down the imaginations. You have to purpose in your heart to get into that presence. And you got to say it because that's your battle that you have to get to God because the devil is trying to resist you from doing that. But once you get past that and you get into it and you purpose it, you will see victory. I promise you this. God promises you this because victory is what God is asking us to do. He's the lioness over us, the lion. And he's teaching us how to take back what is ours. And we need to be bullies about it in the name of Jesus. We need to kick down those strongholds. Those walls are going to be broken in the name of Jesus because we choose to walk in the spirit of God and not in the flesh. And this is how we do the battles. Amen. Verse six. And having in a readiness to revenge. Look at that word readiness. Adjust prepared. You see, how are you going to be prepared to do this? You've got to purpose in your heart and start getting into the word of God. It starts now. If you're not doing it, get in there now. Get in there now. You need to be spending time with God so he will make you into a an effective warp piece, an effective weapon to go and defeat the enemy in the name of Jesus because that's his choice for you. It's what he wants to do. Look at this. to revenge. We get to vindicate, retaliate, punish all disobedience. And what's that word disobedience? Inattention. You know what? Most people are dying from lack of knowledge, which is being dumb and uh uh silent. Well, now what's happening is because people aren't sharing the word of God and it is not getting out there. There's like this barriers over the people's eyes and ears. We need to go and pray against that as to break down that wall so they can open up their because Jesus says if they saw and heard the living word of God they would believe. Do you see these are the scriptures you use when you're praying and you get to so they're doing disobedience and probably uh they're doing it in a way that you know they're not even aware they're doing it but they're still going to suffer because they're not paying attention. We have to pray for them to pay attention to get into the word of God. Uh let's read that again. and having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled. Your obedience is fulfilled. Did you hear that? You have to obey. I didn't want to obey paying for terrorists because, you know, I saw or, you know, I heard and watch a little bit of the snippets of videos. I didn't want to watch the whole thing of the atrocities that they did. And I kind of felt like Jonah. They didn't deserve it, Lord. But then he reminded me how much he loves them because he loves me as much as he loves them. Okay, Lord. Then and and it started off with like, "Okay, Lord, I don't want to do it, but I'm going to pray for it anyways." And then it got better because it was like, "Okay, Lord, I'm do." And as my heart change, come to find out, I love them, too. And I want to see those strongholds come down. And I'm going to tell you right now, I can't be the only one hearing the Holy Spirit tell us right now to go into warfare with our prayers. I'm sure absolutely positive that each of us are being called right now to go into warfare in the secret place and to take back what belongs to us. We need to take back our churches. We need to take back our pastor's teachings. We need to take back the Bible studies that we attend. Is it see if if it becomes wrote, it's just a repetitive action. We just go to church every week or we go to Bible study every week. Is it just a repeat thing or do we learn and get ministered to and walk away going, "Wow, I learned something new today or the Holy Spirit really ministered into my heart." That's where we need to be at that point where we're going, not because it's wrote, but we're going because I'm going to get something new today. And I purpose in my heart to get something new. I p Previous Next Home

PROACTIVE PRAYING The objective is to teach believers how to move from reactive praying to proactive praying by using the Lord’s Prayer as a spiritual guideline for confession, forgiveness, and faith-filled declaration. This lesson equips believers to pray ahead of future challenges—temptation, loss, sickness, danger, and grief—by confessing Christ, forgiving others, and prophesying God’s Word over their lives, establishing spiritual protection, healing, and peace. PROACTIVE PRAYING Minister Lisa Kane January 2, 2026 Objective: The objective is to teach believers how to move from reactive praying to proactive praying by using the Lord’s Prayer as a spiritual guideline for confession, forgiveness, and faith-filled declaration. This lesson equips believers to pray ahead of future challenges—temptation, loss, sickness, danger, and grief—by confessing Christ, forgiving others, and prophesying God’s Word over their lives, establishing spiritual protection, healing, and peace. Synopsis: In Proactive Praying, Minister Lisa Kane reveals that the Lord’s Prayer is more than a familiar recitation—it is a divine pattern for preparing our hearts and our futures. Drawing from Matthew 6:9–15, this teaching emphasizes that praying “deliver us from the evil one” is an act of praying ahead, asking God to guard us before temptation, hardship, or danger arises. Rather than praying only after something goes wrong, believers are encouraged to pray proactively over their health, relationships, travel, grief, and life seasons yet to come. This lesson highlights confession and forgiveness as the foundation of prayer, supported by Romans 10 and James 2, showing that faith must be spoken and acted upon. Through personal testimony and Scripture, Minister Lisa demonstrates how spoken prayer and forgiveness release healing, protection, and freedom. By praying God’s Word preventatively, believers prophesy peace, establish spiritual authority, and walk confidently into the future with Jesus leading the way. Inspired Teaching: Matthew 6:9-15 NKJV 9 In this manner, therefore, pray: Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. 10 Your kingdom come. Your will be done On earth as it is in heaven. 11 Give us this day our daily bread. 12 And forgive us our debts, As we forgive our debtors. 13 And do not lead us into temptation, But deliver us from the evil one. [d]For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen. 14 “For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. 15 But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. This is called the Lord’s prayer but in reality, it’s more of a guideline to help you pray with a good and healthy spiritual attitude, and it’s even more than that. Did you notice ‘do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one’. That is praying for your future. In essence, you’re praying in advance not to be tempted into sin. We need to learn to pray for our future as a preventative measure. I noticed in today’s society that we pray ‘reactively’. We pray when something goes wrong but in reality, we can also pray preventively. If you take a look around your life, you will see elderly people having serious issues. People who are sick. People who have serious issues. People dealing with serious grief and loss of life, etc. If they’re going through it, there’s a good chance you will too. But you have Jesus. In all honesty, I don’t know how people go through these serious issues without Jesus. It’s mind boggling to me. So, what if I told you that you can pray for your future self? Eventually, you know that your grandparents and parents will die. You can start praying now to ask God to help you deal with that. That simply means you will be better prepared…it will still hurt and be a shock, but you know Jesus is helping you through it. The same goes for your health. We see so many people reach their 50’s, 60’s and older have medical issues. You can start praying now asking the Lord to help you stay healthy longer. I learned long ago that if I pray before driving on the road, car accidents are prevented because I gave it to God. Prayer is the center of our walk with God, and it starts with forgiveness. Matthew 6:14-15 NKJV 14 “For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. 15 But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. Romans 10:5-10 NKJV 5 For Moses writes about the righteousness which is of the law, “The man who does those things shall live by them.” 6 But the righteousness of faith speaks in this way, “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’ ” (that is, to bring Christ down from above) 7 or, “ ‘Who will descend into the abyss?’ ” (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead). 8 But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith which we preach): 9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. Confession and forgiveness are the foundation of prayer. It establishes our relationship with the Lord. Both Matthew and Romans tells us this. Another way to say this is that when we forgive and confess we are prophesying a new future over ourselves. We’re speaking the Word of God over our situation. Earlier, I stated that I pray before going driving. I had to because over 30 years ago, I had a really bad day. I day I know that I was under attack. My 3-year-old daughter fell out of a second story window, and on the way to the ER, we were rear ended by a drunk driver. While we were exchanging information with the other driver, I stood in that parking lot and said “No weapon formed against me will prosper. Devil get lost. This ends here and now.” After that day, I pray this before driving: Dear Jesus, let this be a safe and quick drive to ‘wherever’ with no tickets and no accidents. In Jesus’ Name Amen’. We haven’t been in an accident since. In essence, I’m prophesying over that drive…and I do this whether it’s a short trip to the grocery store, or a long road trip. I apply this prayer always whenever I’m getting in a car, and whether I’m driving or not. I know this works because there have been some close calls. You see, confession puts God first. You confess to become saved and you confess stating outright what you believe. Then the scriptures tells us to forgive. In essence, you’re taking it another step forward. You’re saying to God, ‘listen Lord, I need You. I need You as Lord over my life, soul, body, etc, and I will forgive those around me too letting You know I mean business.’ This is you acting on your faith. Remember, James 2:20 NKJV 20 But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is [a]dead? James 2:26 NKJV 26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. You see, it takes a confession of faith to talk with Jesus when you can’t see Him. That’s faith working on your behalf toward salvation. When you verbally, speak out loud to God that you choose to forgive someone, that’s another act of faith. Your saying, “here you go God. This is Your problem now. I’d rather let it go and be free.” When you forgive, you heal yourself. It’s no longer bottled up hardening your cells. This is another form of healing. You’re being healed on the inside of your soul and body. So confession leads toward salvation, deliverance, and healing. Forgiveness follows the footsteps of our savior, Jesus Christ. He forgives all who want forgiveness by what He did on the cross. When you pray preventatively, you’re following in the footsteps of Jesus. Here are scriptures that you can always pray over yourself and your future: Matthew 6:14-15 NKJV 14 “For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. 15 But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. Isaiah 54:17 NKJV 17 No weapon formed against you shall prosper, And every tongue which rises against you in judgment You shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, And their righteousness is from Me,” Says the Lord. 1 Peter 2:24 NKJV 24 who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—by whose [a]stripes you were healed. Dear Jesus, I forgive myself of my sins, iniquities, and transgressions asking You to forgive as well. Thank You. This also means that no weapon formed against me will prosper. The curses, sicknesses, and diseases against my body stop now. By Your stripes Jesus, I was healed. I accept my healing and pray now for today and all my days going forward that I am healed. In Jesus’ Name Amen! John 16:20 NKJV 20 Most assuredly, I say to you that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice; and you will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy. Psalm 30:10-12 NKJV 10 Hear, O LORD, and have mercy on me; LORD, be my helper!” 11 You have turned for me my mourning into dancing; You have put off [e]my sackcloth and clothed me with gladness, 12 To the end that my [f]glory may sing praise to You and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks to You forever. Lamentations 3:32 NKJV 32 Though He causes grief, Yet He will show compassion According to the multitude of His mercies. If you are suffering with grief, say the above prayer using the above 3 scriptures. You can find scriptures for whatever you are facing and pray those words over your life. Pray preventively with confession and forgiveness today and prophesy the Word of God over yourself and you will see a peaceful future in your life. Previous Next Home

PERSEVERANCE The objective of this message is to encourage believers to remain steadfast in their faith during trials and tribulations by holding onto the hope, peace, and confidence found in Christ. It seeks to show that perseverance produces character, character strengthens hope, and hope anchors us in God’s eternal promises. PERSEVERANCE Minister Lisa Kane July 10, 2022 Objective: The objective of this message is to encourage believers to remain steadfast in their faith during trials and tribulations by holding onto the hope, peace, and confidence found in Christ. It seeks to show that perseverance produces character, character strengthens hope, and hope anchors us in God’s eternal promises. Synopsis: In this message, Lisa Kane opens with Romans 5:1–5, highlighting how justification by faith brings peace with God through Christ. She explains that while life is full of trials, tribulation produces perseverance, perseverance builds character, and character fosters hope that does not disappoint because it is rooted in God’s love poured out by the Holy Spirit. Lisa emphasizes the sacrificial love of Christ demonstrated in Romans 5:8, reminding listeners that Jesus died for all humanity while they were still sinners. This truth is framed as the ultimate example of real love, contrasted with the world’s distorted definitions. God’s plan from the beginning—foretold in Daniel and fulfilled in Christ—shows His intent to end sin and bring everlasting righteousness. The message then turns to Psalm 27, where David’s confidence in the Lord through trials serves as a model for modern believers. Lisa applies this scripture to contemporary struggles, including cultural ideologies and societal pressures, stressing that Christians must stand firm on God’s Word, knowing that they will one day give an account before Him. Perseverance, she teaches, is not only about enduring hardship but about keeping the eternal perspective of standing before God. This perspective equips believers to resist fear, find strength in the Holy Spirit, and experience the joy and peace of knowing their eternal destiny. Lisa reassures those facing despair—even suicidal thoughts—that hope in Christ offers deliverance, strength, and a transformed character on the other side of trials. The sermon concludes with a call to remain faithful, patient, and courageous, clinging to the vision of eternity with Christ. Believers are urged to live with the assurance that one day they will hear the words, “Well done, good and faithful servant,” and to let this confidence fuel their perseverance through every tribulation. Inspired Teaching: Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kane and I'm recording this on Sunday, July 10th, 2022. This message is called Perseverance. Let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we lift up this message and we bless it in the name of Jesus and we thank you for your blessing on it. Let our spirits be nourished and fed and let our minds grab hold of the hope that we have in you. knowing where we're going to stand with you in the end. Thank you, Father God. In the glorious name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. Oh, it's going to be one of those messages. By the way, just so you know, I do have the air conditioner running and the fans running, so you're going to hear that hum in the background. I humbly apologize, but it is 95 degrees outside, and so I'm trying to keep it cool inside. We are in the middle of summer here, July 10th, 2022. All right. So, let's go to our opening scripture here. We're going to be looking at Romans chapter five. We're going to start here with verses 1-5. Uh, therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Now, let's keep in mind, how are we justified by faith? The moment you ask Jesus into your heart to be your Lord and Savior because you can't see him, that is an act of faith. And notice when you do that, look at this. You have a peace with God through Jesus because you're asking Jesus to forgive you of your sins. So you have this peace. It is incredible because we do have tribulation. So I want you to see this that this is yours that you have this in spite of all that's going on. I'm going to show you the hope and the confidence that you have that's going to get you through all of this. Amen. So perseverance. Here we go. Uh verse two. through whom we also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. So we can rejoice in this. So when all hell's breaking loose, guess what? You can say, "I don't care. I know where I'm going to be with my God in heaven." Amen. Oh, let's look at how we know. Let's look verse three. And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations. This is what I'm talking about. Paul says it so perfectly here. We glory in tribulations knowing that tribulation produces perseverance and perseverance character and character hope. Now hope does not disappoint because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us. Oh hallelujah. So in spite of all the tribulations and the sufferings that we deal with, we get to see a visual of where we're going to be and have a hope. And remember what hope is. Hope is something we cannot see, but we can know. It's called faith. You're having this little bit of faith here that's going to get you through these things. So in spite of all the tribulations that we deal with, we get to see this hope and know where we are with Christ. Now, how does this work? Because that's going to be important here. How does that work? Well, let's continue with Romans 5 and look at verse 8. But God demonstrates his own love toward us. And now, while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Oh. Oh. Okay. Hold on. hold everything. So if you're lying, you're cheating, you're committing adultery, you committed murder, hey, you're living in homosexuality sin or you're trying it out, it's sin. Sin is sin. Okay? You are living in sin. Now whether you have asked Jesus to believe uh to come into your heart and you believe in him or not uh whatever you've done Jesus performed the most important act of love. Remember love is love. Well, how do you demonstrate love? Look at this. It he demonstrates his own love toward us and that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. If you read the previous scriptures between the first set and this one that I read, you will find and this is a true statement. Will you die for someone that you love? For that matter, will I die for someone that I love? You know, you have to wonder if you ever face that kind of situation what you would do. Some people have the gumption and will do it. But there are others that won't. And it doesn't matter how much of you're a believer or a sinner. If you're not going to die for someone, you're not demonstrating love. Simple as that. So, love isn't love as the world would like us to believe. Love is dying for someone. And Christ died for all of us. And you know what? We were still sinners when he died for us. Oh, you you got to capture this. Think of this. Think of this. Imagine when the flood came out thousands of years ago and God was facing a situation. Now I I'm I'm looking at it from a human perspective, but I this is something to grasp on to because this is so mindblowing. Imagine him facing ending the the world at that point with the flood and starting over because he looked at mankind and saw the sin was continuously in their hearts. But you know what he was thinking? He was thinking, "Lisa in 2022 on July 10th is going to be talking about this very moment and she's going to believe in me. I got to save this world." That is how God thought this through. And in whether he was at the point of the flood or this was in his planning phase when he saw the whole thing and knew the outcome, whenever it was, he saw Lisa. He saw you. He saw what we will be like. And he knew some would believe and some wouldn't believe. But he couldn't abandon the ones that chose to believe. So he demonstrated the greatest act of love by sending his only begotten son that whoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Now, you got to understand that God has a plan here. This perfect plan, the one that he started in the beginning. And he knew. He knew that Lisa would believe. He knew that you would believe. He knew that us believers would be here. And in knowing that, he decided, "Okay, I got I'm going to put a plan. I'm going to put an end to sin." Now, take a look. Because see, we live in sin and we only know sin because that's what we're born into. We do not understand a world without sin. In fact, it's very difficult to comprehend who Jesus is. It really is confounding to say the least. You know, when you think of him as a god and then you think of him as a man and you think, "But I've sinned. Shouldn't you have?" But he didn't. And he went to the cross, but he took on all that sin and he started the act of putting it to an end. Look what Daniel says about uh this to the Israelites and talking to them. But this is the overall plan he's talking about. Daniel 9:24. 70 weeks were determined for your people and for your holy city to finish the transgression to make an end of sins to make reconciliation for iniquity to bring in everlasting righteousness to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy. So he has a plan. And that plan is moving forward. So when you believe and you do have this peace and a hope that you can stand and we're going to look at that in just a moment. You can know that his plan is going forward and which means we're going to see tribulations. We're going to see hell on earth. And in reality, you know what? I've seen some news stories and I've seen some of the stuff that these people do. They get what they deserve. Okay, just saying the reality of the situation is they get what they deserve. And I hope though that they would repent and turn and try to make a better life for themselves. So even though you're a believer and remember as I taught uh actually over it's like a couple years now maybe uh I taught on being a soldier in God's army because as a believer in Christ you're going to have to deal with things and as you deal with things you've got to know the authority that you have and you got to know the tools that you have and how to use those tools. You can go check it out on our website. It is there. All that teaching is there and it's all in video. So you can go watch each step of being a soldier in God's army. It's based on Ephesians chapter 6. So now we know that God has a plan. We know that we're going to face tribulation. So but he said we had a hope and we have a comfort and a peace. He left us the comforter, the Holy Spirit. So what is how do we grab that? How do we have that sustained in our mind? Because sometimes it's very difficult. You're in the situation and all you're thinking of is, "Whoa, there's that mountain, right? You're just being attacked, attacked, attacked." You know, this week wasn't one of my best weeks. But that's okay. I just trust in the Lord that I know where I'm going to stand. So, let's look at what Psalm 27 has to say. We're going to go through that entire chapter because it is so powerful. It is the and and David wrote this psalm the and it it helped him sustain and he went through some serious trials and tribulations. This is your rock, your comfort. You got to remember this chapter. You got to hold on to it because as you get the vision of where you're going to be in the end, you're going to be looking at the straw going, nobody's going to care in 100,000 years. And here's the best part. It builds your character. It helps you persevere. It you just keep on going. For those of you who are dealing with uh suicidal thoughts, listen, there is a life right on the other side of getting through this trial and tribulation. And I want you to capture that. You need to repent. You need to ask Jesus to forgive you of your sins. And I promise you, I promise you, and Jesus, I'm on his side. This is a promise from him that you will be saved and that you will get to the other side and a much stronger individual. Amen. So, let's go look at Psalm 27 and start there. I I you guys, this is going to blow your way. Psalm 20. We're going to start here with verses 1 and two. The Lord is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid? We're gonna stop there. There's other scripture. And again, I don't want to give you all the scripture. I want you to go look these up yourself. Oh, death. Oh, death. Where is your sting? Think of it this way. There is life, there is death, and there's eternity. Eternity is where you're going to spend after death. Now death could come in the form of anything. Cancer, car accident, swimming accident, you name it. COVID, you name it. Death happens. The rapture will take you out of this body in essence as a form of death. But here's the best part. When you stand to face God at your judgment, who is the greater to fear the tribulation you're dealing with now, which is minuscule and nothing according to God or God. So when you put your mind right with God and you are looking at God and you're looking at that moment where you're standing in front of him and that moment should drive your entire life. So when you're faced with the current woke society because we're at war. We have ideology wars on us. They have the genderless war taking place currently in the news the other day. Uh, they don't want to call him mother or mother. They want to call her the birthing parent. Listen, you want to call her a birthing parent? Sure, it makes sense. Put it in a book, whatever. But don't eliminate the word mother. You see what they're doing here? They're trying to indoctrinate us into their ideology that all men and women are the same. And in all reality, we're not. In fact, there are no two people alike in the world. Even twins are not alike. You might see the similarities of people across the world, but we're all different. We're all different. And you know, that's we got to grasp onto the uniqueness that we're all different. And here's the best part of it though. In that uniqueness, you get to stand in the presence of God of who you are. You, me, Lisa, the uniqueness of Lisa is going to stand before God. So when you the uniqueness of you stands before God, how are you going to face him? Trying to be like the world or trying to be like yourself. So you have to overcome the ideologies. Even what I was saying earlier in homosexuality, love is love. You see, when you're attacked with this, you have to think of what is more important in the long term of things. you standing before God and facing him or and acce or accepting what the world is trying to force on you to accept their ideology to bless it. In essence, that's what the movement of the LGBTQ whatever it is that is moving forward today. That ideology is saying you have to accept me for who I am. Whatever God accepts you for who you are, by the way, so there's nothing wrong with that. Uh but they also want you not only to accept you but to accept their sin and bless it and and in in essence giving them a word that says when they face God, hey look God, I had the whole world behind me, I got their blessings, which means we're right, you're wrong. You know what? God is patient though and God is trying to get your attention and he's saying, "Listen, yes, you're going to face me, but I'm going to assure you, you're not going to be feeling that way at that moment. You are not. It's going to be you and him and the books." So, you have to look at that moment and realize, okay, so then if they're forcing this ideology on me and you say, "No, I'm not going to approve or bless your sin. You want to be a sinner, that's between you and God, go sin. Sin is fun for a season. It feels good for a season, but it backbites you. It comes after you later, and it will haunt you on the day that you're in the presence of the Lord. So, you have to realize that there's got to be a moment where you need to repent and turn from that and say, "Okay, Lord, what am I going to do here?" and and say, "I I'm sorry, and I need to call on you and I need you to be my Lord and Savior." And as that believer, when you're faced with these ideologies, remember where you're going to be standing on judgment day. And the answer is simple. I don't accept your ideology. I got to face God in the future. And when I do, I'm going to do it on his terms in the word of God, not your terms. That, my friend, is the secret to persevering because you have that hope because you know it's going to happen. For all of you who are telling you there is no life after death, they're lying to you. Yes, I get it. I have no proof. But I promise you that the moment you repent, you will have your proof because you will know it. You will feel it. It will be a part of you and it is very comforting. So then whom shall you fear? I would go with God and not the world. The world can do nothing. I just taught on Nehemiah and I taught about discernment there. But I also taught that he had the authority of God. He had the authority of the king to do what he was doing. And even though the whole wicked world around him was trying to stop him, he kept persevering and he did it. and he got to the other side because of his authority. So you can get to the other side and you will have a better character. You will be full of hope and comfort because I promise you as you go through every tribulation and some are small, some are bigger, you do come out with a better character. Amen. Whom shall you fear? So remember you have the authority of God. Stand on God's word. Verse two, when the wicked came against me to eat up my flesh, my enemies and foes, they stumbled and fell. Look at Nehemiah. The enemies fell. They couldn't do anything. And for all of you who have testimonies, you already know this. I have testimonies. It is absolutely amazing. When you get to the other side, you go, "Wow, I stressed over that and it was nothing." It's amazing. We're just we're in the flesh and that is very hard. But if you keep your mind on where you're going to be standing in the presence of God, decision-m should become much, much easier. Let's go to verse three now. Though an army may encamp against me, my heart shall not fear. Though war may rise against me, in this I will be confident. And I just talked about wars, the war of ideology, I can be confident in knowing because see, you make the decision because you're standing in the presence of God. And so you make the decision based on his word. You stand for his word because the word is Jesus. I know it's all beaten up. I I use my word. I get in here. Get into your word. This is Jesus. This is how you're going to get to know who Jesus and God is. Don't listen to the world tell you who Jesus is. You need to get into the word of God and find out who he is. And then you can stand in confidence when you're in this war. And we are in war. We're being attacked with all of these ideologies. And we need to stand strong. And I'm telling you too, there's a physical war coming because whenever you have a spiritual war like this, it's in the heavens. Whatever happens in the heavens happens on the earth. Whatever happens on the earth happens in the heavens. Look at what uh Jesus said when he gave the key keys to the kingdom of heaven. He said, "Whatever you bind on heaven is bound in heaven. Whatever you loose on earth is loosened in earth." So or loosed in heaven. So get into those scriptures, study them, learn them, and have the confidence. Remember where you're going to be standing. You're going to be standing in front of God. And so you say, "You know what, Lord? Your word said this. I'm going to stand on your word and I'm going to be confident in knowing that I'm going to be better than what this war is after me." And yeah, there were consequences. They're going to try to hurt you. But in Nehemiah, they couldn't do nothing. They had no authority. And until God is ready to remove you, they can't do nothing. Oh, death. Oh, death, where is your staying? Oh, this is awesome. You should have the confident and the hope now. And watch how this works out. This is so amazing. Verse four. One thing I have desired of the Lord that I that will I seek. That I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life to behold the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple. If you are still thinking or have thought that you're going to be like some angel with wings and a harp and sitting on a cloud, come again. Because I'm going to tell you right now, that is not what heaven is like. And you are going to be blessed. And and if you just think about being in the presence of the Lord, the the healing, the feeling of being healed, the feeling of being delivered and no more sin, no more darkness, no more pain, no more. That alone should be a a mind opener, a an eyeopener as to what heaven will be like. Okay? You don't want to go to hell. Hell is for the devil. and and the Lord will put you there because if you choose him over he God then that's you know you you made your decision but I'm asking you to think about this think it logically through and say you know what I think I'd rather be in the presence of God listen you're made in his image so you have these self- thoughts and idea ideologies that you're kind of up here and that well I could be better or like you you stand on hey I know what's right God not you oh and And we do have that kind of characteristic traits that come out of us. Well, this is the time to say, "No, you know what? I'm going to humble myself before the Lord and I'm going ask the Lord why." And then when you go and find out because he will give you the answer. I promise you that. I've asked why many times, many times. And I got my answers. I promise you, you will get your answers. So, think of what heaven will be like. Think of when you're in that moment of judgment. That's more important than whatever trials and tribulations you're facing. And that should give you hope and confidence and should make your decision- making way easier on what to stand. So, if you have trouble believing, let's say, in evolution or creation, again, think on what heaven's going to be like and understand that if man hadn't fall, you wouldn't have to believe. But because he did fall, you have to believe, which means evolution is debunked. It couldn't happen. That's because you're keeping your eyes on the prize of where you're going to be for eternity. It helps. I'm promising you that. Builds your confidence, builds your character, and helps you persevere through the trials and the tribulations. Amen. Let's continue on Psalm 27. We're in verse 5. For in the time of trouble, he shall hide me in his pavilion, in the secret place of his tabernacle. He shall hide me. He shall set me high upon a rock. Rock. The rock. Jesus is our rock. The righteous shall run into it. The strong tower a righteous shall run into. I taught on Jesus being our ark, our salvation when the end comes. Now remember Noah for the flood. Remember God was thinking Lisa at that time. He decided to save mankind and he saved eight people. And if you go and look at uh the ark encounter and you look at creation museum and you look at their studies that they did on DNA, you will find that our DNA goes back to eight lines. Eight people survived the flood. So there is scientific proof, one that the flood took place. They already know that. They're just trying to decide how big it was. And two, that our DNA does go to eight people, eight lines. So there is scientific proof. So if you are struggling in believing the Old Testament or believing Genesis, I promise you it is truth and the science is coming out. The world don't want it to. Again, here's another war that you're going through. The world don't want you to go through that or know that because if you didn't think that man fell, they can keep you in sin. You see how the devil works? But if you're a believer in Christ and you know what's coming, God has already prophesied about the tribulation in Revelation. Ezekiel has already prophesied there's going to be a great earthquake earthquake where all the walls fall. And that is before the Israelites are are covered or uh marked in the book of Revelation. So that's before the rapture because the the the Christians have to be removed in order for the uh 144,000 to be sealed. So on the day of the Lord, this earthquake happens. The sun turns dark, the moon turns red. There's there's a series of events. It's a day, a day you will never forget. I promise you, you want to be in that rapture. You do not want to be here for the tribulation. That is going to be hell on earth, literally. Uh and in in fact, the first five months, you're not going to be able to die. I just know that. Okay? go into the scriptures and look at it. But look, he says you will be hidden. Look at that. He shall hide me in his pavilion in the secret. There is a secret place. Now here we create our secret place when we spend time with the Lord. But God has a secret place for us. Don't know what it is yet. Secret, but I promise you it's there. And we are going to be comforted and held and protected in spite of all of that going on. Because you know what? One, it doesn't matter per se because when I stand before God, he's going to tell me some good words. I'm going to share those words with you. And I'm hoping he shares those words with you, too. You're going to be standing in his presence. And you're going to be in his eternity. And you're going to not be in hell. And you're going to be not hurting. You're going to be free. You're gonna be loved and at peace. That, my friend, is absolutely so important. So now you can look at that and let it be your confidence. Let it be your hope. Let it get you through the p the tribulations so you can persevere and be strong and have a better character when the next trial and tribulation comes through that you have to persevere through. Verse six. And now my head shall be lifted up above my enemies all around me. Therefore, I will offer sacrifices of joy in his tabernacle. I will sing. Yes, I will sing praises to the Lord. You know what? When you grab hold of this, you should be singing and you should be jumping up and down for joy, you should be like, "Yes, I I'm telling you, it is a a great mental picture to have because as you stand up strong, your head is above the shoulders. you are above your enemies. They look at you and in fact people of the world. They're considered your enemy right now until they become a believer. But they will be looking at you like what happened to you? Are you in la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la land? Good. You ought to be you ought to be in in the mindset of thinking of where heaven is and what heaven will be like because that is your comfort. That is your strength. And when they ask you because they will ask you and this is your testimony. You can say, "I know where I'm going to be with God when all is done." And you're going to say, "I'm going to be saved." And you can ask them, "Do you want to be saved, too?" And you know, when they see your confidence, your strength, and they see you expressing yourself, and they see the peace and the joy that you have and you singing the praises that you have, they will repent because it is a a catching it catches you. You know, Nehemiah, when I taught on that, the neighbors caught on like, "Okay, he he's going to fix this part of the fence. Well, I'm going to do my part." And then and it got it just kept catching on. It's like a fire that catches on. Amen. Amen. This is awesome. God is so good. Verse seven, here. Oh Lord, when I cry with my voice, have mercy also upon me and answer me. When you said, "Seek my face." My heart said to you, "Your face, Lord, I will seek." Do not hide your face from me. Do not turn your servant away in anger. You have been my help. Do not leave me nor forsake me, oh God of my salvation. And when you finally grab hold of God and you ask, you repent and you get, you grab hold and you hold on tight. Put his face right in front of you. Put it right there. Don't let go. You say, "Lord, do not leave me. Do not forsake it." and he won't. And that's what he gives you, that comfort, that hope that you can know that you are in his presence. Hallelujah. Because you're seeking his face. You're seeking him. Find out who he is. You're going to be shocked. The world's angry at nothing. But God is all knowing. He has the answers. He's righteous. He is just. But he loves you so much. He sent his only begotten son even as you are a sinner. Verse 10. When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take care of me. I want you to understand something. as you age and sometimes when you're young, you you have to face this. Um our parents die, you know, people die and whether it's a parent or uh a loved one, someone who's cared for you and taken care of you and they're removed. They're they're no longer a caretaker. They're no longer available to take care of you, whether they're living in an Alzheimer's home or they've gone on to be with the Lord. They forsake you. But I'm going to tell you right now, Jesus doesn't forsake you. He's the rock that you can rely on. And you know what? And you know, he will take care of your parents and your loved ones. You can have the confidence to know he's got life and death in it. He made it. He understands it. And he understands that you are afraid. You know how many times he said, "Do not be afraid." I forget how many times it is written in the Bible, but it is written so many times to not be afraid. And it is hard, especially when you're in the middle of that trial or tribulation, grieving for a lost one. You're sitting there and you're just like, "Wow, Lord, how am I going to get through this?" But you go to him, you seek his face, you hold on, you don't let go, and you know that he is your strength. and remember where you're going to be standing in his presence in the future. Verse 11, teach me your way, O Lord. And think about that. Teach me your way, oh Lord. His way. He knows about death. He knows what the spiritual realm is all about. He will teach it to you. But you have to get into his presence to find out. It is all in here. But as long as you let the world get in your way first, you will never get your answers. And then you wonder why you have such a hard time with the trials and the tribulations even as a believer. Because it is hard. It's hard to have faith. But if you're seeking him, you can have that confidence knowing where you're going to be in in the future because you're going to be there. You will be there. You will be there. So grab on and say, "Okay, I'm going to hope and know I'm going to be there." And that should give you the confidence of how to live your life. Teach me your way, O Lord, and lead me in a smooth path because of my enemies. Do not deliver me to the will of my adversaries. For false witnesses have risen against me, and such as breathe out violence. Again, the enemy is going to do everything they can to get to you. Even lie. Look at what Trump's going through. And there's so many lies about him, but he stands for God. And he'll say, he comes out and says, "This is not truthful." And you know what? I'm gonna promise you this. He'd be in jail or even dead by now if they had found anything evil on him. They didn't. They wanted it so bad and they can't. So, they're trying to figure out what's the best way, best lie we can make up. So what do you do? You seek his word and you remember where you're going to be when it's your time to face the Lord. I'm going tell you right now, it it it it makes the tribulation not so important anymore. Amen. Amen. The last two verses, verses 13 and 14. I would have lost heart unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Oh, it is so easy in the middle of that trial and tribulation. Look at people who have committed suicide. It is easy to lose hope and to lose sight of where you're going to be because the enemy wants you to think that way. He He's trying to confuse you and keep you pushed down. Stand with confidence and remember where you're going to be. Look at that moment. You're in the presence of the Lord. You have to make an accounting for yourself. So, what's it going to be like? You going to live by the rules of the world? Are you going to live by the rules of God? And look what else he says here in verse 14. Wait on the Lord. Be of good courage and he shall strengthen your heart. Wait, I say on the Lord. you know, as you are patient because, you know, we know we're in the trials and tribulations we're facing right now. And this is just the beginning of birth pains as Matthew, Mark, uh, as Jesus says in Matthew and Mark and Luke, this is just the beginning. So, there's going to be it's going to get real bad and it's coming. So, as we sit here, this is the time to reinforce our mind on that visual. Picture yourself in front of his presence. Picture yourself knowing what he's going to say. Picture yourself seeking the word. Picture yourself standing up going, "These trials and tribulations are nothing because I've got a better place to be." Picture yourself making the decisions of the word of God and not of the world. Picture yourself in the knowledge that you have hope, faith in Christ, and keep that in mind and wait for it. So as you wait for it, as you get to you're visualizing it, you see it coming and it's coming. Every day that every day passes, it gets closer and closer. Amen. name. Remember, these are the words that you should be hoping to hear. Look at these words. This is when you stand in the moment of God. Matthew 25:23, his Lord said to him, "Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things. I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of your Lord." I use that scripture because these are this is about um the talents that we're given. You're given a testimony. Share your testimony. Let your talent be rewarded. Stand strong. Well done, good and faithful servant. Remember that moment. Hasn't happened yet, but remember it by seeing it. Hold on to it. Let it be your comfort. Let it be your confidence. Let it be your hope. And when you come out of the trial and the tribulation, your character goes up and you can say with confidence, I persevered and I made it. Hallelujah. Thank you, Lord. Thank you. Thank you. Let's close in a word of prayer. Father God, we bless this word and we thank you for your blessing on it. Oh, let us have our strength and our courage and our confidence and our hope in you. And let us hold on to that visual that we have for you and with you in that moment. We're going to be with you. Thank you, Father God, in the glorious name of Jesus. Amen. Well, amen. God bless you guys. I will see you in the next video. Bye-bye. Previous Next Home

GOD THE FATHER The objective of this teaching is to help believers build a deeper trust in God as their Heavenly Father by learning to see Him apart from flawed earthly examples of fatherhood. Through Scripture, this message encourages listeners to recognize the perfect relationship between Jesus and the Father as the model for their own relationship with God, and to grow in faith, obedience, and spiritual maturity. GOD THE FATHER Minister Lisa Kane July 17, 2023 Objective: The objective of this teaching is to help believers build a deeper trust in God as their Heavenly Father by learning to see Him apart from flawed earthly examples of fatherhood. Through Scripture, this message encourages listeners to recognize the perfect relationship between Jesus and the Father as the model for their own relationship with God, and to grow in faith, obedience, and spiritual maturity. Synopsis: In this message, Lisa Kane explores the role of God as Father, drawing from John 10:30 where Jesus declares, “I and my Father are one.” The teaching emphasizes that by knowing Jesus, believers also come to know the Father, since Christ is the living Word and the perfect example of trust and obedience. Jesus’ willingness to lay down His life in faith that the Father would raise Him again illustrates the ultimate expression of trust and relationship. Lisa contrasts the heavenly Father with earthly fathers, acknowledging that many have experienced disappointment, absence, or brokenness in human relationships. However, unlike human fathers, God patiently trains, guides, and waits for His children to return to Him, always offering love, correction, and restoration. The message highlights Scriptures such as Exodus 20:12, Proverbs 22:6, and Proverbs 3:5–6, showing how God acts as a true parent who teaches, disciplines, and blesses His children. Practical applications include trusting God beyond worldly reasoning, measuring relationships by God’s standard rather than cultural ones, and recognizing that spiritual growth is a process in which God meets His children at their level of readiness. Lisa also stresses that salvation is secure, as God’s love and patience endure while He draws people back to Himself. The message closes with a call to repentance, encouragement to pursue a genuine relationship with God through His Word, and assurance that honoring and trusting the Father leads to blessing, spiritual maturity, and eternal life. Inspired Teaching: Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kane and recording this on Monday, July 17th, 2023. Welcome. This message is called God the Father. Let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for who you are. We thank you for building our trust in you. You know, I understand that we've been disappointed by role models and relationships that we've had here on the earth. Well, but with you, we can put all that aside and trust in you because you are always there even if we don't understand it. And I pray, Father God, that I can eloquently explain this message to the world on your behalf. So come through me, speak through me, you do this, Father God, and we thank you and we bless this word. We ask for your blessing on it. We thank you in the name of Jesus. Amen. Amen. Uh I'm trying a little different background. We are here in Missouri now and I'm going to be here in this particular place for 6 months, maybe about five and a half months now. And uh so I don't have my lighting out, but this room is extremely bright. So I'm kind of hoping we have a little overcast today. Probably going to get a storm later this evening if I understand the weather correctly. Now we'll see. And then I still have this lingering cough. Pray for me in the name of Jesus. Let's get rid of this thing now. Yeah. you know. Okay, let's go to our opening scripture here. John 10:30. I and my father are one. And um this message is going to be about relationships. And I hope to build your um trust value or trust factor up with the Lord. That's my goal with this message for one and two to help you not look at God based on your worldly experiences. I want you to see God in the heavenly realm and experience him heavenly like. That's what this message is about. Amen. So, let's dig right in. So, it's called God the Father. We're going to be talking about the father role here. Now, notice though, we have an example in the word of God. Look at this opening scripture. John 10:30. I and my father are one. So, Jesus is saying that if you look at me, you're going to see my father. So if you know Jesus, you know the father. Jesus is the perfect example for us to follow in having that relationship because Jesus obviously trusted God. Let's go a little further. We're still in John 10. Now we're going to look at verses 17- 18. Therefore, my father loves me because I laid down my life that I may take it again. Pause. That very sentence is very powerful. Jesus is saying, "Yes, I'm going to go lay down my life because I know my father is going to pick me up and give it to me again. I'm going to pick it up actually." And and so let's pause for a moment. Let's let's identify Jesus, the son of God, here for a moment. I've taught on this already, so I'm just going to do a highle overview. But if you compare John 1:1 against Genesis 1 1-4, you will find that Jesus is the one who says, "Let there be light." There was light and it was good. So now Jesus has been the epiphany the whole time. This is him. The word of God is Jesus. Jesus John 1:1 I um in the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God. Jesus was the word. Jesus is the word. So we have the Bible today which is Jesus. So if you need to hear from Jesus, you don't have to spiritually hear. You can, but it always you need to check that voice because you don't know if a demon is talking to you. You have to be very careful. You check it against the word of God. If the word of God says exactly what you heard in your head, you know that's the heavenly father speaking to you. That's Jesus speaking to you. Jesus has been this role. So you can go back to the very beginning, you know, and I know I've been watching um on TikTok uh a true Christian ministry. I don't know the gentleman's name. I think it's Mike, but he he answers questions from people. A lot of their questions very interesting. You know, why would God create a hell? Why would God not just put all the good people on here? But see, this is what was so interesting is God chose this path. He knew what would happen. He made perfect utopia with Adam. No woman, just Adam and him. And they had this relationship and it was awesome. You go read this in Genesis 1, two, three, all the way to the end of three. And uh you can start to see when Eve comes in and then the deception. Uh you can see that God made it perfect. And what happened is Eve and Adam sinned. They disobeyed God. And the moment they did that, sin entered the picture and now everything goes corrupt. And and and I guess people don't understand that or don't want to understand. And part part of it is you have a generation today that the Bible was taken out of and they have no belief factor. And so they question everything, which is what a scientist teaches you, question everything. Well, you know, then you need to question a trust factor. Do you really trust the word of God above what scientists are telling you? Because see, scientists think they're telling you what they know. Do they really know the Earth is billions of years old? They don't know it. It's a theory. I But it's so interesting how they word it. You You could open up dinosaur books. A fact. Six million years ago, dinosaur. How do you know that? That that's not a fact. You see, you cannot trust science. But if you start with the word of God and you put that first and then you look at the evidence the earth offers, you will find truth. So now that should build your trust up a bit. So here Jesus, so when God made man in his image, he already knew. So he chose this path. So Jesus at that very moment had already been asked by his father, I need you to go lay your life down for me. Look at the scripture. Let's continue on in the scripture because this is what God had asked him. Look at this. Uh and and you know this because Jesus is telling us in his time. It's not written in Genesis. But watch this. Watch this. Says, "Because I laid down my life that I may take it again." Verse 18, "No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down and I have power to take it again. this command I have received from my father. So Jesus clearly is saying, I'm doing what my father told me to do. And he said, I'm going to have my life again if I do this. And as I've taught many times when he caught up on that cross, he's thinking of every human being that's ever lived in this earth. And he says, "I'm here to save you." And he did it. He did it. He went to the cross and he died. And guess what? his body's not in the grave. He rose from the grave three days later. And this was simply his father asking him. So let's go validate what that means because this is this is very very powerful. This has an impact on you. Watch this. In Exodus 2012, one of the ten commandments is honor your father and your mother that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you. Now Paul reiterates it in Ephesians 6 2 and 3. Honor your father and mother. Look what he says. Which is the first commandment with promise that it may be well with you and you may live long on the earth. Jesus fulfilled that. He honored his father. He went to the cross and said, "You commanded me to do this. I'm gonna do it, Lord. I'm gonna sacrifice my life because I know I'm going to pick it up again because you said so." He trusted his father. Now, I'm going to pause here and I'm I'm going to show you what you already know. How many of you were raised with no father? How many of you had a father that disappointed you? How many fathers or how many people had fathers that were drunks? They're men and they're sin. They're they're living in sin. But there are still many fathers who repented and did the best they could. So now in your experience, who should you look to? Now even if I, you know, I grew up with a Christian father. We became Christians when I was six years old. My father was strict, you know. He raised us properly. He taught me how to manage my money, taught me how to have that self-confidence in the world, how to navigate the world. And this is what our father should be teaching us. By the way, Godfather, our God, our heavenly father teaches us that. I'm going to kind of go into that a bit here in a minute. But I want you to see how sometimes our fathers didn't do that. Now, we may have had role models that we can follow, but there's always a disappointment factor. See, what people forget is we're in time. Time means we have a new day every day and it keeps on going till it ends, which has been prophesied it will end. God isn't in time. He is outside of time. So, if you live for God in January of 2023, but you kind of fall away for a few months, but then you come back cuz it's like a I remember my first um years as a young adult living for God. Sometimes I was on fire for God and there are other times he was the farthest thing from my mind. Months would go by without even reading my Bible or praying. And I remember identifying that and I asked God how to avoid that because I didn't want to live like a yo-yo. Now, did I lose my salvation in the midst of that? No. God was patient. You see, let's identify something here. So, if see, God is perfect gentleman. He's going to work with me. When a father is training a child, if you're training a toddler how to handle a gun, that toddler is not ready to handle a gun. So, you cannot do that. You see, you have to train them at the appropriate age that they are. So, when you are trying to train your young teenager who thinks they know everything, sometimes you have to step back and pray and leave it with the Lord's hands because they're not ready to hear anything you have to say. Right? So, in that January scenario that I just uh identified a few moments ago, if I was living for God in January 2023, let's say I'm 23 years old, just just hypothetically, and then I go five months without living for God, praying or anything, did I lose my salvation? No. Because what I did is like five months later, I said, "You know what, God, I need you." And I started again and I repent. But dad, no. God stood back because he waited for me to come back to him when I was ready in my time. That's what relationship is all about, guys. If you're trying to go ask out a a girl for a date and you're trying to see, you know, and you keep asking her, she keeps saying, "Leave me alone." Leave her alone. Pray if you want to pray. That might not be the right girl for you. But I'm going to tell you right now, you have to back off. That's what God the Father does until that person's ready to receive. This is why some people go to hell. They never want to have anything to do with God. That's their persona. That's their choice. They have that will to tell God, "Leave me alone." How many people I see it all the time on TikTok. How many people say, "Why do you force God down my throat?" We're not forcing God down your throat. The Holy Spirit is talking to you, but you keep doing this. And I'm telling you right now, he's going to back off, but he's going to remind you from time to time. Now, I know people who waited till they were in their 60s, close to retirement, when they said, "Oh, okay. Now I'll live for God." Because they wanted to in their mind, they wanted to enjoy the earth and everything it had to offer. Listen, my friend, you can enjoy Christ. You can enjoy life now with Christ at the center. You're not um withheld from anything. And if you think you want to enjoy drugs, I'm going to tell you right now, you never know when they'll take your life. This is why God teaches us not to have that. But here's this relationship factor that it it's about you. Now, this is you. This is your choice. You have to choose the right role model here. You have to choose, okay, Lord, I got to get into your word. I And and the only way you're going to know him is by reading his word. And if you think in your mind that you're stupid or dumb, I'm going to tell you right now, you are not. Because see, the Holy Spirit knows how to talk to you at your level. And you will get it. And maybe nobody else will, but you will get it. Because remember what Paul says, we know a part. Each of us know parts and God talks of uh talks to us in each of those parts. So let the Lord work with you and teach you and train you from his word. Let's continue on with the scriptures now. John 10:38. But if I do, now Jesus is talking to the Pharisees and the Sadducees. They're they're um you know complaining and blaspheing him. But if I do though you do not believe me, believe the works that you may know and believe that the father is in me and I in him. And so Jesus is taking it to the next level. He says, "I know you don't believe me. I get it." He says, "I I know you don't believe me." So he's telling the f Pharisees and Sadducees, which by the way, they reject him. They don't ever believe him. But here's the thing. He's telling them, "Even if you don't believe me, believe the works." Because he goes, "I did it because my father commanded me to do it." That's where your faith factor goes up. This is when you get to trust in the Lord because there's things and and it's all unique to each individual. I think I shared this in a couple messages ago. We were at an Airbnb about five or six days here before we moved into this place while we waited for them to get it ready. This is a brand new build here. And he we were all talking my family and I how we had prayed to God Lord I don't understand this part of scripture what what does it mean and each of us had done this at different times all on our own just talking to God and the very next day or within so many hours or within a few days each of us had an experience where either we turn the radio on the preacher starts preaching about that subject you asked God or all of a sudden you see a video and you see us teaching or suddenly somebody comes up and you guys talking about the Lord and the Lord tells you, that person tells you something and it was through the and you're sitting there going, "God answered my prayer." Believe the works. So, you see, he's telling you to believe the works. So, this is God training you how to trust him. Look at Proverbs. We got to go to Proverbs. This is important verse. Proverbs 22:6. Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it. So you as a parent do that and everybody looks at it from that perspective. But God as a parent does that to you. He's trying to train you up in the way right way to go. If you're 65 years old and you're re watching this video, he's still training you up in the right way to go. You got to understand time and death means nothing to God. He's just trying other than you know once you die and you keep rejecting him all the way unto death. That's an unforgivable sin. He you can't ask for forgiveness once you're dead. You have to repent here and now alive on this earth. So up until that moment that's the only thing. So God is working with you trying to reach you. And if you're getting all flustered and frustrated, stop shoving God down my throat. Listen, you're the one who has the skip, delete, no button, block button, use it. You want to reject God. Hey, that's your choice. Don't come complaining when you wake up in hell because it's too late by then. You rejected the one way you had out. And if you think that all ways get to God, let me tell you, Jesus says, "I am the way, the truth, and the life." No man, no man comes to the father except through him. Through Jesus. So to get to him, you have to go through Jesus. That's the path. If you and you think, "No, no, no. All ways." No, no, no, no. If I lived in Los Angeles and you lived in San Diego and I told you to take the five north to get to me, and you decide to take the five south and you start heading off to Baja California and whatnot and into Mexico, are you ever going to get to my address? No. You will not get to heaven if you choose to go another way other than Jesus. You just won't. That's just the way this goes. So God is trying to train you. And Jesus, who is the son of God, who says, "You want to know the father, you got to know me because you'll know the father through me because I'm in him. He's in me. I'm doing everything he commanded me to do." If that's the case, then you need to go read about Jesus. You need to see the works that he does. And if you have been somewhat following Jesus, you go to church, but you don't see any miracles. You question that even miracles exist. You wonder, you have to ask yourself, are you asking God or are you looking to man? And this is again the relationship part. This is where you have to say, you know what, I'm not going to talk to man about this. This is a heavenly spiritual matter. I need to go talk to God. And if you think, okay, well, I don't understand and I can't hear from him. All you have to do, open up the Bible. open it up anywhere and I promise you he will speak to you. And if you need to go to the Gospel, start with the Gospel of John because then you can really see Jesus walk on the earth, do his miracles, save people, heal people, and then go to the cross to redeem us of our sins. That is what he did. And so as you begin to read though, you're going to realize your soul, your spirit is saturating the word of God and it's going to bubble out of you and you're going to find this good news that you have in you and you're going to want to share it. I'm going to tell you right now for those of you that say, "Oh, stop." The reason I want to share with you is because I found the precious, most beautiful diamond that's so rare and I want to share it with you. I don't want to keep it to myself. Jesus is life. Look at me. I'm living and I'm excited. I'm not suffering like you. I'm Watch the works in me. Watch the transformation in me. You can go look at all my videos up and even to today. Watch. They're all dated the ones that I started doing and you can see the transformation take place even in the element of teaching because that's how God works. I spend time and I want to share it with you and I'm hoping that you enjoy the messages. Get encouraged. Get lifted up. There's one guy on TikTok, I love him. He comes right around the corner. Jesus is Lord. This is a new day. And he just shouts it out. I love that. And you want to say no to that. You think a drug is going to make you feel that way? No. Because there's consequences. You might feel that way for a precious 30 minutes, but after that, oh no, there's a crash that comes that you just don't like and won't like. Oh, let's continue on with the word of God. And look at Isaiah. And and and this is what God is saying. Come, let us reason together. Come talk to me. I will answer your questions. It's right here. Look at this. Is God training us. Isaiah 1:18. Come now and let us reason together, says the Lord. I know. He says, "Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, they shall be wool uh be as wool." Because he's saying, "I know you're a sinner. I know you don't understand, but I want to train you. I want to have a relationship with you. I want you to trust me." He says, "Come talk to me so I can explain it to you." And he does. But if you're doing this, how can he talk to you? How can you? You're just going to keep repeating the same stupid questions over and over. Okay, no question is stupid. I know it's valid, but God will answer it, but you got to get in there and say, "Lord, I need help with this question because it's affecting me spiritually. It's affecting my walk with you. I I think gays should be loved." And then you go read John 3:16. For God so loved the world. Oh, you do love them. And then he reminds you, I don't love the sin. I love the person. and I'm trying to get them out of sin. Paul talks heavily on all of the New Testament books that he wrote. He tells you get away from sin. Run from and you will have the self-control to run from it because that's the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit gives you self-control. And if you have to ask the Holy Spirit, Lord, I need self-control. That's a gift of the Holy Spirit. And then see, then the Holy Spirit gets to move in you. And he does transform you. You know, I don't need a high from the world. I don't need to be out till 3:00 in the morning at a bar partying with my ears going deaf from the music. I I don't need any of that. I have the most beautiful, perfect relationship with God. You know, he he showed me go to bed around 10 or 11. Try not to stay up too late, you know. And of course, you learn this as you get a little older. I'm in my early 50s, 53 years. I'll be 54 soon. And all I can tell you is that as you do mature, you get a little older, you do change in your taste. You want to go to bed between 10 and 11. Get up between 7 and 8. Or if you have to go to work, get up between 6:00 and 7. You know, these are reasonable things. But the Lord teaches you this as you mature and when you're and this is why I was telling you God waits for you to come back to him. This is why I believe you can't lose your salvation. I mean, who do you think God is? Do you really think he's evil enough to say that in time you believed at one point in your time, but since you didn't believe at the point you died? I mean, what kind of God is that? That's not God. And that's not what's taught in the Bible. He shows you his love. He shows you his patience. He just keeps waiting for you till you return. And I want to even add an element there. He teaches you as he and he's showing you this as a believer and and and you want to judge the world. I get it. We all want to judge. But he's also teaching you to look at them with his eyes, not your eyes. If you're going to judge a person, which he's given you the ability, and he teaches you how to judge in the word of God, by the way. If you're going to judge someone, you need to judge them with facts. You don't know the facts between that person and God. And that's intimate. That's them. So, take your eyes off of them. Put your eyes on God. As Colossians 3 says, put your things on your eyes on heavenly matters between you and God. Focus on your relationship. And you know what you need to do? Pray. Pray for them. And the Lord will. And even if you don't know what to pray, speak in tones. Speaking in tonesues edifies you. Edifies your spirit. And if that's what you need to do, speak in tongues to let that judgment go, then do it. If you need to and you think you have a factual event, hey Lord, I think my family member ran away with this money, but I don't know. But I'm lifting them up to you and I'm praying for them. And I just pray that one, they repent. I pray that they find you, that they live for you, glorify you, and I pray that they are blessed and in good health. And you know, and you learn this too because God teaches you these things as you mature and you get more in him because you're living for him. You're learning more from him. And the more that you learn, you see now I I learned just what a year ago, maybe a little less than pray for my neighbors. Why did I learn this? You know, there was a lot of thief going, you know, a lot of people stealing things all over the neighborhood. I started praying and it stopped. And what was I praying? Bless them, Lord, with things that they need. If they're stealing, they either need it or they really want it. But Lord, bless them financially so they can go get it themselves and not steal it from somebody else. And then the neighborhood got better. That, my friend, is God training us, teaching us. Look at this. Proverbs 22:19. So that your trust may be in the Lord, I have instructed you today, even you. Look at that. He's telling you, I'm teaching you things today. Whether you even see it or know it, um it could be like a near miss car accident. You see that and you stop and you go, "Wow, Lord, you you did that." I there was a testimony somebody was sharing. I don't know how true this is, and it's an old testimony about a car getting into an intersection and a truck going through them and and everybody survived. I don't know again how true it is, but I do know that Lord does things like that and he does things to reach you at a level so that you finally see the heavenly realm there. Um, I was walking up the stairs. This was many, many years ago, probably about 30 years ago, give or take now. And I can hear and and this was one of those moments. God was the furthest thing from me. Remember, he waits. And I don't know what he saw in my future, but he saw something there because all of a sudden I'm hearing this little voice in the back of my head. I'm walking upstairs. Go to church. Go to church. And I'm And and this is going on in the back of my head, but I'm fighting it. What? And I turned around on the stairs to tell this voice, I don't need to. And I stopped because all of a sudden, I'm experiencing the presence of the heavenly father. and he said, "Go to church." And I did. That's when I realized the yo-yo effected and my life changed. So, every person has a personal experience with God like that. Let him train you. Let him show you. And then trust him. Look at this. Proverbs 35-6. Trust in the Lord with all your heart. lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him and he shall direct your path. For example, the LGBT community. There's a lot of Christians that don't understand what's going on. They're being deceived because they're saying, "You got to love me. You got to um I I got to be loved." And but what the LGBT community is saying, you have to bless my sin so I can go to God and say, "Look at how many people we got on our side. We must be right and you're wrong." Sin is sin, my friend. If you lie, that's a sin. A little white lie. By the way, God hates those more than anything else, bar none. He hates that. He hates that more than you being gay. Simple. Listen, you want to live gay, remember, God will let you be. He's going to leave you be. You want to live in sin, that's your choice. You're going to get a knock from the Holy Spirit from time to time asking you to repent. But if you want to live that way, that you you want to lie, you want to live in sin, you want to live in um carnality, sexual immorality, you want to do that, that is your choice. There are consequences to it. You see, when you live in sin, it will kill you slowly but surely. It's like marinating in the oven. Frog doesn't know he's dying when they have him on that heat until it's too late. So, but if you say, you know what, I'm going to go to God first. let me get my life right with God. I'm gonna put aside this sin and I'm gonna choose to live for him. That is what he's asking you to do. And he's trying to train you in that. He trains you on all of this stuff. This is how God works. He trains you and he protects you. He's your father. So, you know what I'm going to tell you right now? There is nothing in this world that you can be afraid of. And he tells you, do not fear. I think like 365 times in the new in the King James version, one for every day of the year. This is how God works. He's here for you. He just wants you to talk to him and he will reason with you. He will explain to you how much he loves you but doesn't love your sin. He will explain to you what carnality and sin is. Paul makes a whole bunch of lists. By the way, he talks about drunkenness. He doesn't talk about smoking. You want to smoke? Hey, have at it. But, you know, they're consequences. That's what he's talking about, though. He says, look at the consequences. You want to die, holy. Romans 6:23, the wages of sin leads to death is death. Wages of sin is death. But the second part of that verse says, the gift of God is life. You want to live a long life. Look at what Jesus did. He honored his father. And you said, "Well, he died at 33. He's eternally alive and he will be alive for the rest of his days in that body that the Lord gave him." He was spirit before that. He's now God in body. And he has all the people that want to live for him and believe in him. He has that. His an entire kingdom. He benefited. He got more than what he had before. and he's telling you, I honored my father. Do the same. And if you go back and you look at Abraham, King David, those are examples. They lived long lives. Why? Because they put God first. They said, you know, I'm going to honor my parents. And they did. You know, David had to wait many years before he became king. Even though he was anointed king early on, he waited. But he was the youngest I think of all his brothers. So he had all these role models to follow. But he went to the Lord and while he watched the sheep, he was talking to the Lord. A man after God's own heart. Oh, great example to follow. And look at this. Proverbs 35. Every word of God is pure. He is a shield to those who put their trust in him. So here's the role model for you to follow. And that is Jesus, the son of God. He put himself out there and he honored his father and he is blessed. Now, I understand you're disappointing your parents. Your parents don't live the way you judge them to live by. So, I'm asking you to put that judgment aside. I'm asking you to pray for them, bless them, and I'm asking you to go to God. Go to Jesus, judge Jesus, and then ask yourself, which role model do you want to follow first? And I promise you, Jesus is going to lead you in the right direction. He, by the way, so I I'm going to put in a couple scriptures here. I want you to see there are all kinds of things that Jesus teaches you, God teach you that are in the word of God in which you can either train your children up in the word of God like this and use it as an example, use it with a real life application, but these are things that you want to be trained in. And if you're 70 years old and you're hearing this message, these are still things you can learn from. Look at this. And you may have already learned from it, but this goes to show you how the word of God is already teaching you. When you're ready, you come into his presence and he will teach you. Look at this. 1 Timothy 6:10. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. What do you put first, Jesus or money? And in Jesus, there's other scriptures say, "Cast all that. Cast it out. Give it to God." I promise you, having the presence of God in your life is better than money. And I promise you, he will provide everything. As he says, uh Jesus says it, "If I can take care of the birds," and he does. They're well taken care of, he will take care of us. See, this is the trust factor. Now, this is where you've got to go into that trust. He teaches you these things. Look what else he teaches you. Look at this. Matthew 16:18 through9. And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it. He taught Jesus taught the disciples how to build a church. See, he's teaching you these things, but he's bringing you into the fold because he wants to train you up in the right way. You should go. If you want to, by the way, you know, if you choose to get saved but not live for him, hey, who am I to judge you? I'm not. Go live your life. You will be in consequences of the sins that you choose to continue to live in. But I promise you, the Holy Spirit's so nagging you. And you'll be like, "Oh, why are you reminding me of that, Lord?" Nope. I'm going to go do Hey, your choice. But I promise you, once you repent and you get back into it, you will be blessed. You are the And some of you sit here and I hear this all the time. Why do you get why are you so lucky? And I'm not. Well, I live for God. You're not there. That's the reality of the situation. So, let's continue on. He says, "And build the church." Verse 19, "And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven. Whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven." He's telling the pastor of the church, you have the authority to bind up the strong men demons so that people can come into the church, hear, see, and believe. Because if you bind the strong man where he can't block the hearing, can't block the seeing, Jesus clearly says you will believe because when you see it, you will believe. That's what he says. Again, he trains you up in how to do that. And it's not just pastors that can do that. By the way, I did that coming here to Missouri. And that's probably why I faced Previous Next Home

WHY DID YOU DOUBT? To reveal how doubt enters the believer’s life through fear and divided focus, and to teach how faith without doubt is restored through humility, submission to God, and trust in His Word. This teaching aims to help believers recognize the spiritual consequences of doubt, understand its connection to double-mindedness, and learn how to return to joy, stability, and mountain-moving faith by drawing near to the Lord. WHY DID YOU DOUBT? Minister Lisa Kane February 10, 2026 Objective: To reveal how doubt enters the believer’s life through fear and divided focus, and to teach how faith without doubt is restored through humility, submission to God, and trust in His Word. This teaching aims to help believers recognize the spiritual consequences of doubt, understand its connection to double-mindedness, and learn how to return to joy, stability, and mountain-moving faith by drawing near to the Lord. Synopsis: In Why Did You Doubt?, Minister Lisa Kane examines the moment Peter stepped out of the boat in faith and then began to sink—not because Jesus failed him, but because fear redirected his focus. Though Peter was walking in obedience, doubt entered when he looked at the boisterous wind instead of keeping his eyes on Jesus. Jesus’ question, “Why did you doubt?” exposes a truth believers still face today: doubt does not negate faith, but it interrupts it. This teaching connects Peter’s experience with James’ warning that doubt makes a person unstable, tossed like waves by the sea. Doubt is shown not merely as uncertainty, but as a spiritual condition that steals joy, silences praise, and produces inward conflict. While God gives humanity the ability to question and choose belief, doubting the Word of God becomes a hindrance when it replaces trust. Minister Kane emphasizes that overcoming doubt begins with humility. Drawing from James 4, believers are called to submit to God, resist the enemy, cleanse their hearts, and draw near to the Lord. Doubt often leads to mourning and heaviness, but as faith is restored, joy and rejoicing return—just as Psalm 126 promises. The teaching also confronts the tension many believers feel: wanting to believe fully while remembering past disappointments. Even when faith feels imperfect, the Word assures that God’s promises will stand. Mountains will fall—whether now or in God’s appointed time—because His Word never fails. Rather than hiding doubt, believers are encouraged to bring it honestly before the Lord and ask Him for help. This message concludes with a prayerful call to walk in faith without doubt, trusting that God is fully in control. Through humility, repentance, and surrender, believers can move from instability to confidence, from fear to joy, and from doubt to unwavering faith in Christ. Inspired Teaching: Matthew 14:25-33 25 Now in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went to them, walking on the sea. 26 And when the disciples saw Him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, “It is a ghost!” And they cried out for fear. 27 But immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying, [c]“Be of good cheer! [d]It is I; do not be afraid.” 28 And Peter answered Him and said, “Lord, if it is You, command me to come to You on the water.” 29 So He said, “Come.” And when Peter had come down out of the boat, he walked on the water to go to Jesus. 30 But when he saw [e]that the wind was boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink he cried out, saying, “Lord, save me!” 31 And immediately Jesus stretched out His hand and caught him, and said to him, “O you of little faith, why did you doubt?” 32 And when they got into the boat, the wind ceased. 33 Then those who were in the boat [f]came and worshiped Him, saying, “Truly You are the Son of God.” James 1:6-8 NKJV 6 But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. 7 For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; 8 he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. Well, this is interesting. Peter, when walking on the water toward Jesus doubted because he saw that the wind was boisterous and he became afraid. Then James tells us that doubts are like waves of sea driven and tossed by the wind…in essence calling that person a double-minded person who is unstable in all his ways. Here’s the definition of doubt from dictionary.com: As a verb: to be uncertain about; consider questionable or unlikely; hesitate to believe. As a noun: a feeling of uncertainty about the truth, reality, or nature of something. God gave us the ability to question things and to choose whether to believe or not, which is good. Sometimes, though, we doubt or don’t believe something the Word of God tells us and that becomes a hindrance against us. But this also means that God gave us the ability to overcome doubt. James 4:7-10 NKJV 7 Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. 8 Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 9 Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. 10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up. It starts with humbling ourselves before the Lord and He will lift us up. Whenever we have issues of faith in which we doubt, we need to go before the Lord and put Him first through humility and then give it to Him. He will take care of it. Back to James 4:9, because you doubt, you mourn and weep and laughter and joy becomes gloom. Have you ever wondered about why you don’t feel like praising or laughing or having fun? Maybe you’re doubting something that the Lord is showing you. Get before the Lord and humble yourself. Put Him first and ask Him to help with your doubt or lack of faith, and/or lack of belief. Psalm 126:6 NKJV 6 He who continually goes [a]forth weeping, Bearing [b]seed for sowing, Shall doubtless come again [c]with rejoicing, Bringing his sheaves with him. Once you don’t doubt, rejoicing comes back. Matthew 21:21 NKJV 21 So Jesus answered and said to them, “Assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but also if you say to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ it will be done. Wow. If I don’t doubt…you should hear the thoughts going through my mind right now. I want to believe. I don’t want to doubt and yet, I’ve tried this before and nothing happened. But you know what, I believe that it will happen because of prophecy over the mountains that is coming. The mountains will fall… Ezekial 38:20 NKJV 20 so that the fish of the sea, the birds of the heavens, the beasts of the field, all creeping things that creep on the earth, and all men who are on the face of the earth shall shake at My presence. The mountains shall be thrown down, the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.’ There’s a day that’s coming when those mountains will fall. So, even if I go and cast down a mountain and throw it to the sea today, I know it will happen in the future because I doubt. I can’t picture myself having no doubt in this situation and that’s unfortunate. So, I humble myself before the Lord and ask Him to help me so that I can have faith without doubt to move mountains. Romans 14:23 NKJV 23 But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because he does not eat from faith; for whatever is not from faith is [j]sin. Dear Jesus, help me walk in faith and to not doubt. I walk to walk in Your joy and know that You have everything in control. In Jesus’ Name Amen! Previous Next Home

THE LIVING WORD PART 2 Equip believers at Signal Hill Christian Center to trust and apply God’s “exceedingly great and precious promises” (2 Peter 1:3–4) by: understanding salvation and new life in the Spirit, practicing faith-filled speech and prayer, cultivating patience and surrender through seasons of testing, and embracing humble, servant-hearted discipleship that invites God’s light to heal hidden places. THE LIVING WORD PART 2 Pastor Marcos Marrero August 12, 2007 Objective: Equip believers at Signal Hill Christian Center to trust and apply God’s “exceedingly great and precious promises” (2 Peter 1:3–4) by: understanding salvation and new life in the Spirit, practicing faith-filled speech and prayer, cultivating patience and surrender through seasons of testing, and embracing humble, servant-hearted discipleship that invites God’s light to heal hidden places. Synopsis: The message opens with 2 Peter 1:3–4: through Christ, God has already provided everything for life and godliness, delivered as promises that make us “partakers of the divine nature.” The teacher explains salvation as union with Christ: at repentance we “die” to sin’s judgment and rise into new life; all of Christ’s provisions reside within our reborn spirit in seed form and must mature over time. Because growth requires knowledge and practice, Scripture and spiritual principles become essential (Hos 4:6; Prov). The enemy’s core tactic is always, “Did God really say?” so believers must answer with God’s Word. Using Israel’s wilderness as a pattern, the message shows how God trains His people to rely on His Word above circumstances. Romans 8:32 assures that if the Father gave His Son, He will “freely give us all things.” A central motif is the seed: promises germinate in a prepared heart, watered by the Word, and develop in God’s timing/season. Hebrews 4:12 is unpacked as the Word’s life-giving energy that surgically separates and heals soul and spirit—like Spirit-led “radiation” that targets spiritual disease without destroying what is healthy. John 1:1–5 adds that the Word is both life and light; believers must invite that light—by their words—into dark, wounded places (Rev 3:20; Prov 20:27), overcoming guilt and shame so healing can flow. The message models warfare through prayerful speech: David “gave himself to prayer” under accusation (Ps 109) and cried out until his soul was released from prison (Ps 142). Jesus interceded for Peter before the sifting and still intercedes for us as High Priest. We overcome “by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of our testimony” (Rev 12:11). Like Caleb, a “different spirit” (faith-filled words) chooses God’s report over fear. Practical response includes three covenant prayers grounded in Scripture: Covenant of Salvation (Rom 10:9–10) — confessing Jesus as Lord and believing in His resurrection. Covenant of Surrender (2 Tim 2:19–21) — turning from wickedness so Christ is Lord over every area, becoming a vessel useful to the Master. Servant’s Covenant (John 12:26; Ps 143:10) — embracing humble service in God’s will rather than self-directed ministry. The message closes by blessing the congregation and leadership, asking for renewed strength, a fresh wind of the Spirit, and a local revival of the Word that releases healing, holiness, and fruitful ministry to the community. Inspired Teaching: problems from Jesus directly. So Lord Jesus, we ask again that uh what you have for us tonight, what you have for this house, for Sigma Hill Christian Center, what you have for the individuals, Father God, that make your church here in this area, that the Holy Spirit will go directly to you, Lord Jesus, and bring to us what we need tonight. We submit ourselves, Father God. I submit myself to you, Father God, to be now a voice, Father God, for the Holy Spirit to speak what you would want your church to hear. I just pray that you will grant us ears to hear, that you would give us a heart to understand, Father God, and the ability to apply what the Holy Spirit speaks to us tonight. In Jesus name, we agree. Father, we say, "Amen." Amen. Praise God. Hallelujah. You can tell I got a little bit too excited this morning. And My voice is kind of wanting. Praise God. That's always good. Anyway, um I'm going to start with the scripture. Second Peter chapter 1:es 3 and 4 is what we finish with this morning. And then uh we read there that according or as his divine power, God through Jesus has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness through the knowledge of him who called us by glory and virtue. Then he tells us what that knowledge brings about. es by which this knowledge have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises that through these promises the knowledge or the understanding of these promises that through this you may be partakers of the divine nature having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. So basically by putting things into context we believe that God has already given to us and and I don't want to get too theological but you know uh I think it's 2 Thessalonians 5 says that your whole spirit your whole soul and your whole body may be kept blameless until the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. But our spirit is what is born again. The minute that we confess that we're sinners. See, the word of God says that the soul that sinnth it shall surely die. So in June 2nd, 1976, without me knowing or understanding all of these things, when I walked up to the altar with my wife and then um I repented of my sins, basically God declared me dead right then and there. I have to die. See, you cannot go to the court of God and say that you're a sinner and live because God's word cannot be revoked. God's word said the soul that sinned to surely die. So when I confess my sin and admitted that I was s a sinner immediately the judgment of God was brought upon me. I was declared God the judgment of God said he's dead. The reason why I didn't die there is because Jesus, you see, Jesus provided my death in the cross. He satisfied the divine uh uh uh requirements of God. Jesus is my substitute. I think Paul writes in Corinthians when he says that he who knew no sin became sin for us that we might become the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. In other words, when I went forward and and and my wife went forward, we died. As far as God is concerned, we die. The life that now I now live, like Paul says, I live by the power of the risen son of God. In other words, God in in my spirit gave me life. He took Jesus's all of my sins that have been placed in on Jesus on the cross. He took his death on the cross as full payment for my sins. And immediately God, that's why it says that we're baptized by one spirit into one body. Baptized means to be put under. Uh it's like taking a drop of water and dropping it on the Pacific Ocean. As soon as that drop goes into the ocean, you can't tell where it's at. It becomes part of the whole ocean. My spirit was baptized into the Holy Spirit. And when that happens immediately, your spirit is alive to God. All of the promises of God are now in me in my spirit in seed form. You see, because uh we need to understand that even though salvation is immediate and and and um uh and your names are immediately written in heaven and there's rejoicing in heaven, the minute that a sinner repents, the manifestation of that salvation in us and through us takes a while. You know, one of the odd things because when I I was saved, I was radically transformed. I I mean, I I use this analogy a lot. It was just like somehow God just took the half of my skull up and he reached in there, took my brain and turn it around and put it back in and then put my skull back. It was like, "Oh, wow. Now things, you know, I begin to understand and see things uh uh from a different perspective. That's what what salvation was to me. It was like I was turned around completely, but everything that was in there was in seed form. I went home and I look in the mirror and I look the same. How that's the same me but I don't feel like me anymore. You see there was a transformation. It it it is called born again. Means your spirit all of a sudden now becomes alive. Your spirit now becomes uh uh into the things of God. It was a hunger for anything that had to do with the word of God because it had been starved all these years separated from God. Now, we need to understand that all of that, all of these great and praiseful promises over here that we were just reading, we have to apply knowledge to it. How do you know that God just doesn't all of a sudden uh uh uh gives you all of the wisdom and all of the understanding and and all of the things? One of the things you find out when you get born again that you still make the same stupid mistakes sometimes over and over again. Except this time now you have a spiritual understanding. This time now you're aware. This time now you say, you know what, this is not working for me. You know, when you're in the world, it didn't matter. This is your life. That's what you went with. But now that you're born again, you have a different perspective, a different understanding of what sin is or what sin does of of of of decisions and stuff like that. So then knowledge becomes something that is very much needed. Like I quoted this morning in Hosea, I think it's 6:4, he says that my people perish for lack of knowledge. And I think it was Proverbs um maybe 9:11, the last part. I don't remember for sure but it says that uh it is through knowledge the last part of the verse that the righteous or the just is delivered. So we need to understand there is a requirement now for us not only to study the word but to begin to put what the Bible calls spiritual principles to work. And the reason why I I I um harp so much this morning in the principle of the power of words is because that is the foundation. You see the foundation is everything that is going to be challenging you like uh uh the very first words of Satan Quarter on the Bible. Did God really say? Every challenge that you're going to have whether is sicknesses, whether it's family problems, whether it's business or work related, whatever challenge you have in your life has one root cause and that is Satan challenging the veracity of the word of God or of the promises of God to you. You see, it's going to come to this to where you're going to be faced and having to make a decision. Did God really say? Because that's what Satan is challenging. He's not, you know, God is a God of the person. That's why I love him so much. God can be so awesome and so great. But God is into people. God never invest in big buildings or big program. God, everything that God does has an individual at the center of it. Which is the reason why so many churches fail today. They can build great things, but the individual's needs are not met. God is into people. If you can come face to face to God, you will find out that God is into people. One person to God is a lot more important than a million. There can be a thousand people here tonight and there be one person there with a great need. And God's eyes focus on that person. He said, "That's the sheep that's lost. That's the one that I need to get. That's the one that and that's what God is." But Satan is not like that. Satan is like communism. Everything is is for the the system his system of of destruction. So he will always come to you to the point of of your knee and challenge the veracity of the word of God or of the promises of God in your life. Guess what? And God for the purpose of training us in in in the ways of faith because without faith it is impossible to please God. We are going to be faced with challenges that we're not going to pass until we cross that line and we make the decision and dare to believe what God says in spite of all of the circumstances. Abraham had to do that. Moses had to do that. Every person of faith that you read about in the Bible had to do that. As a matter of fact, in Hebrews 11 talks about some of them never received the promises while they were here. The Bible said they were not the world was not good enough for them. So we need to understand that that is going to be the challenge. Uh God brought the Israelites out of Egypt, Previous Next Home